Ezra 6:2-4

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

² And there was found in Ecbatana, which is a castle in the province of Media, a book in which this record was written.

³ In the first year of Cyrus the king: Cyrus the king decreed, that the house of God should be built, which is in Jerusalem, in the place where they may offer sacrifices, and that they lay the foundations that may support the height of threescore cubits, and the breadth of threescore cubits,

⁴ Three rows of unpolished stones, and so rows of new timber: and the charges shall be given out of the king's house.