² A scroll was found in the fortress of Ecbatana. (Ecbatana is in the province of Media.) This is what was written on that scroll:

Official Note: ³ During the first year that Cyrus was king, he gave an order about the Temple of God in Jerusalem. The order said:

Let the Temple of God be rebuilt. It will be a place to offer sacrifices. Let its foundations be built. The Temple must be 60 cubits^[a] high and 60 cubits wide. ⁴ Its wall will be in layers that have three rows of large stones^[b] and one row of wooden timbers. The cost of building the Temple must be paid for from the king’s treasury.