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and after that, the continual oblations and the sacrifice of the Sabbaths and of the new moons and of all holy feasts.
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And all those who had made any vow to God began to offer sacrifices to God from the first day of the seventh month, although the temple of the Lord was not yet built.Œ
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And they gave unto the masons and carpenters money, meat, and drink with cheerfulness.
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Unto those of Sidon also and Tyre they gave carts, that they should bring cedar trees from Lebanon, which should be brought by floats to the haven of Joppa, according as it was commanded them by Cyrus king of the Persians.
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And in the second year and second month after his coming to the temple of God at Jerusalem began Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and their brethren, and the priests and the Levites, and all those who had come unto Jerusalem out of the captivity;
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and they laid the foundation of the house of God on the first day of the second month, in the second year after they had come to Jewry and Jerusalem.
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And they appointed the Levites from twenty years old over the works of the Lord. Then stood up Jeshua and his sons and brethren, and Kadmiel his brother, and the sons of Jeshua Emadabun, with the sons of Joda the son of Iliadun, with their sons and brethren, all Levites, setters forward of the business, laboring with one accord to advance the work on the house of God. So the workmen built the temple of the Lord.
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And the priests stood arrayed in their vestments with musical instruments and trumpets; and the Levites the sons of Asaph had cymbals,
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singing songs of thanksgiving and praising the Lord, according as David the king of Israel had ordained.
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And they sang with loud voices songs to the praise of the Lord, because His mercy and glory is for ever in all Israel.
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And all the people sounded trumpets and shouted with a loud voice, singing songs of thanksgiving unto the Lord for the rearing up of the house of the Lord.