Ezra 2:68-3:7

English Standard Version

^68 (A)Some of the heads of families, when they came to the house of the Lord that is in Jerusalem, made freewill offerings for the house of God, to erect it on its site. ⁶⁹ According to their ability they gave to ^(B)the treasury of the work 61,000 darics^[a] of gold, 5,000 minas^[b] of silver, and 100 priests' garments.

^70 (C)Now the priests, the Levites, some of the people, the singers, the gatekeepers, and the temple servants lived in their towns, and all the rest of Israel^[c] in their towns.

Rebuilding the Altar

3 ^(D)When the seventh month came, and the children of Israel were in the towns, the people gathered as one man to Jerusalem. ² Then arose Jeshua the son of Jozadak, with his fellow priests, and ^(E)Zerubbabel the son of ^(F)Shealtiel with his kinsmen, and they built the altar of the God of Israel, to offer burnt offerings on it, ^(G)as it is written in the Law of Moses the ^(H)man of God. ³ They set the altar in its place, ^(I)for fear was on them because of the peoples of the lands, and ^(J)they offered burnt offerings on it to the Lord, burnt offerings morning and evening. ^4 (K)And they kept the Feast of Booths, ^(L)as it is written, ^(M)and offered the daily burnt offerings by number according to the rule, as each day required, ⁵ and after that the regular burnt ^(N)offerings, the offerings at the new moon ^(O)and at all the appointed feasts of the Lord, and the offerings of everyone who made a freewill offering to the Lord. ⁶ From the first day of the seventh month they began to offer burnt offerings to the Lord. But the foundation of the temple of the Lord was not yet laid. ⁷ So they gave money to the masons and the carpenters, ^(P)and food, drink, and oil to the Sidonians and the Tyrians ^(Q)to bring cedar trees from Lebanon to the sea, to Joppa, ^(R)according to the grant that they had from Cyrus king of Persia.