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Then they gave money to the masons and [a]carpenters, and (A)food, drink, and oil to the Sidonians and to the Tyrians, (B)to bring cedar wood from Lebanon to the sea at (C)Joppa, according to the permission they had [b]from (D)Cyrus king of Persia.

The Foundation of the Temple of Yahweh

Now in the second year of their coming to the house of God at Jerusalem in the second month, (E)Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel and Jeshua the son of Jozadak and the rest of their brothers the priests and the Levites, and all who came from the captivity to Jerusalem, began the work and (F)appointed the Levites from twenty years and older to direct the work of the house of Yahweh. Then (G)Jeshua with his sons and brothers stood united with Kadmiel and his sons, the sons of [c]Judah and the sons of Henadad with their sons and brothers the Levites, to direct those who do the work in the house of God.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezra 3:7 Or craftsmen of wood, cf. 2 Sam 5:11
  2. Ezra 3:7 Lit of
  3. Ezra 3:9 In Ezra 2:40, Hodaviah