Initial Offering Ceremonies^(A)

3 Seven months after the Israelis had settled in their cities, they all gathered together in Jerusalem as a united body.^{[a] 2} Then Jozadak’s son Jeshua and his brothers got up, along with Shealtiel’s son Zerubbabel and his brothers. They built an altar of the God of Israel in order to offer burnt offerings, as prescribed by the Law of Moses, the man of God.

³ Even though they feared the people in neighboring regions, they rebuilt the altar where it had stood before.^[b] They offered burnt offerings on it to the Lord—burnt offerings both in the morning and in the evening. ⁴ They also observed the Festival of Tents^[c] as has been prescribed, offering a specific number of daily burnt offerings in accordance with the ordinance of each day. ⁵ After that, they offered^[d] all of the continual burnt offerings and the New Moon sacrifices^[e] for all of the designated festivals of the Lord that were being consecrated, along with all the voluntary offerings that were dedicated to the Lord. ⁶ They began to offer burnt offerings to the Lord from the first day of the seventh month, even though the foundation of the Temple of the Lord had not yet been laid.