And there was found in a [a]coffer (in the palace that was in the province of the Medes) a volume, and therein was it thus written, as a memorial,

IN THE FIRST year of King Cyrus, King Cyrus made a decree for the house of God in Jerusalem, Let the house be built, even the place where they offered sacrifices, and let the walls thereof be joined together: let the height thereof be threescore cubits, and the breadth thereof threescore cubits,

Three [b]orders of [c]great stones, and one order of timber, and let the expenses be given of the king’s house.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezra 6:2 Wherein were the acts of the kings of the Medes and Persians.
  2. Ezra 6:4 Or, rows, or courses.
  3. Ezra 6:4 Or, Marble.

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