Ezra 6:1-3

New American Standard Bible

Darius Finds Cyrus’ Decree

6 Then King Darius issued a decree, and a ^(A)search was conducted in the ^[a]archives, where the treasures were stored in Babylon. ² And in ^[b]Ecbatana, in the fortress which is ^(B)in the province of Media, a scroll was found; and the following was written in it: “Memorandum— ^3 (C)In the first year of King Cyrus, Cyrus the king issued a decree: ‘Concerning the house of God in Jerusalem, let the ^[c]temple, the place where sacrifices are offered, be rebuilt, and let ^[d]its foundations be repaired, its height being ^[e]sixty cubits and its width sixty cubits,