Ezra 6:6-12

New American Standard Bible

⁶ “Now as for you, ^(A)Tattenai, governor of the province beyond the Euphrates River, Shethar-bozenai, and ^[a]your colleagues, the officials of the provinces beyond the River, ^[b]stay away from there. ⁷ Leave that work on the house of God alone; let the governor of the Jews and the elders of the Jews rebuild that house of God on its site. ⁸ Furthermore, ^(B)I issue a decree concerning what you are to do for these elders of Judah in the rebuilding of that house of God: the full cost is to be paid to those people from the royal treasury out of the taxes of the provinces beyond the Euphrates River, and that without interruption. ⁹ And whatever is needed, bulls, rams, and lambs for burnt offerings to the God of heaven, and wheat, salt, wine, and anointing oil, as the priests in Jerusalem order, it is to be given to them daily without fail, ¹⁰ so that they may offer acceptable sacrifices to the God of heaven and ^(C)pray for the lives of the king and his sons. ¹¹ And I issued a decree that ^(D)any person who violates this decree, a timber shall be pulled out of his house and he shall be impaled on it; and ^(E)his house shall be turned into a refuse heap on account of this. ¹² May the God who ^(F)has caused His name to dwell there overthrow any king or people who ^[c]attempts to ^[d]change it, so as to destroy that house of God in Jerusalem. I, Darius, have issued this decree; it is to be carried out with all diligence!”