Ezra 3:1-5

New King James Version

Worship Restored at Jerusalem

3 And when the ^(A)seventh month had come, and the children of Israel were in the cities, the people gathered together as one man to Jerusalem. ²Then ^[a]Jeshua the son of ^(B)Jozadak^[b] and his brethren the priests, ^(C)and Zerubbabel the son of ^(D)Shealtiel and his brethren, arose and built the altar of the God of Israel, to offer burnt offerings on it, as it is ^(E)written in the Law of Moses the man of God. ³Though fear had come upon them because of the people of those countries, they set the altar on its ^[c]bases; and they offered ^(F)burnt offerings on it to the Lord, both the morning and evening burnt offerings. ⁴^(G)They also kept the Feast of Tabernacles, ^(H)as it is written, and ^(I)offered the daily burnt offerings in the number required by ordinance for each day. ⁵Afterwards they offered the ^(J)regular burnt offering, and those for New Moons and for all the appointed feasts of the Lord that were consecrated, and those of everyone who willingly offered a freewill offering to the Lord.

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Footnotes

Ezra 3:2 Or Joshua
Ezra 3:2 Jehozadak, 1 Chr. 6:14
Ezra 3:3 foundations

Ezra 3:8-9

New King James Version

Restoration of the Temple Begins

⁸Now in the second month of the second year of their coming to the house of God at Jerusalem, ^(A)Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, Jeshua the son of ^[a]Jozadak, and the rest of their brethren the priests and the Levites, and all those who had come out of the captivity to Jerusalem, began work ^(B)and appointed the Levites from twenty years old and above to oversee the work of the house of the Lord. ⁹Then Jeshua with his sons and brothers, Kadmiel with his sons, and the sons of ^[b]Judah, arose as one to oversee those working on the house of God: the sons of Henadad with their sons and their brethren the Levites.