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Ezra 6:2-4
Evangelical Heritage Version

2 A scroll was located in Ecbatana, in the citadel that is in the province of Media, and this was written on it:

Memorandum:

3 In the first year of King Cyrus, King Cyrus issued a decree regarding the house of God in Jerusalem.

That house is to be rebuilt at the place where sacrifices were sacrificed, and its foundations are to be laid.[a] Its height: ninety feet. Its width: ninety feet.[b] 4 Build with three layers of large stone and one layer of wood.[c] The cost will be paid by the royal treasury.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezra 6:3 Or and burnt offerings were offered
  2. Ezra 6:3 The dimensions are different than those of Solomon’s temple in 1 Kings 6.
  3. Ezra 6:4 The translation follows the Greek. The Aramaic reads new wood.
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