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And there was found at Achmetha, in the palace that is in the province of the Medes, a scroll, and therein was a record thus written:

“In the first year of Cyrus the king, the same Cyrus the king made a decree concerning the house of God at Jerusalem: Let the house be built, the place where they offered sacrifices, and let the foundations thereof be strongly laid — the height thereof threescore cubits, and the breadth thereof threescore cubits,

with three rows of great stones, and a row of new timber — and let the expenses be given out of the king’s house.

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