⁷ They gave money also unto the ^[a]masons, and to the carpenters; and food, and drink, and oil, unto them of Sidon, and to them of Tyre, to bring cedar-trees from Lebanon to the sea, unto Joppa, according to the grant that they had of Cyrus king of Persia.

⁸ Now in the second year of their coming unto the house of God at Jerusalem, in the second month, began Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and the rest of their brethren the priests and the Levites, and all they that were come out of the captivity unto Jerusalem, and appointed the Levites, from twenty years old and upward, to ^[b]have the oversight of the work of the house of Jehovah. ⁹ Then stood Jeshua with his sons and his brethren, Kadmiel and his sons, the sons of ^[c]Judah, ^[d]together, to have the oversight of the workmen in the house of God: the sons of Henadad, with their sons and their brethren the Levites.