Ezra 3:4-6

4 They celebrated the ¹Feast of Booths, ²as it is written, and offered the fixed number of burnt offerings daily, ³according to the ordinance, as each day required;

5 and afterward * there was a ⁴continual burnt offering, also ⁵for the new moons and ⁶for all the fixed festivals of the LORD that were consecrated, and from everyone who offered a freewill offering to the LORD.

6 From the first day of the seventh month they began to offer burnt offerings to the LORD, but the foundation of the temple of the LORD had not 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.

Cross References

• 1. Nehemiah 8:14; Zechariah 14:16
• 2. Exodus 23:16
• 3. Numbers 29:12
• 4. Exodus 29:38; Numbers 28:3
• 5. Numbers 28:11
• 6. Numbers 29:39

Footnotes

• [a]. Or "Tabernacles"
• [b]. Lit "by number"