Ezra 3:4-6

4 They celebrated the Festival of Booths as prescribed, and [offered] burnt offerings each day, based on the number specified by ordinance for each festival day.^[a]

5 After that, [they offered] the regular burnt offering^[b] and the offerings for the beginning of each month^[c][d]and for all the Lord's appointed holy occasions, as well as the freewill offerings brought to^[e] the Lord.

6 On the first day of the seventh month they began to offer burnt offerings to the Lord, even though the foundation of the Lord's temple had not [yet] been laid.

Ezra 3:4-6 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO EZRA 3

This chapter relates how that the people of Israel returned from captivity, gathered to Jerusalem, and set up the altar, where sacrifices were offered, Ezr 3:1-3, and kept the feast of tabernacles, and offered the sacrifices of that, besides the daily sacrifice, and of other festivals; and contributed to the workmen that prepared for the building of the temple, Ezr 3:4-7 and began it by laying the foundation of it; which to some was matter of joy, to others of grief, on different accounts, Ezr 3:8-13.

Footnotes

• [a]. Nm 29:12-38
• [b]. Ex 29:38-43; Nm 28:3
• [c]. Lit for the new moons
• [d]. Nm 28:11-15; 29:6
• [e]. Lit well as those of everyone making a freewill offering to