Ezra 6:15-17

Expanded Bible

¹⁵ The ·Temple [^Lhouse] was finished on the third day of the month of Adar [^CMarch 12] in the sixth year Darius was king.

¹⁶ Then the people of Israel celebrated and ·gave [dedicated] the ·Temple [^Lhouse] to God to honor him. Everybody was happy: the priests, the Levites, and the rest of the ·Jews who had returned from captivity [exiles; ^Lsons/people of the exile]. ¹⁷ They ·gave [dedicated] the ·Temple [^Lhouse] to God by offering a hundred bulls, two hundred ·male sheep [rams], and four hundred lambs as sacrifices. And as an ·offering to forgive the sins of [sin offering for or purification offering for; Lev. 4:3] all Israel, they offered twelve male goats, ·one goat for each tribe in [corresponding to the number of tribes of] Israel.