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And the elders of the Jews built, and they prospered according to the prophecy of Haggai, the prophet, and Zechariah, the son of Iddo. They built and finished
it, according to the commandment of the God of Israel and according to the commandment of Cyrus and of Darius and of Artaxerxes, king of Persia.
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And this house was finished on the third day of the month Adar, which was in the sixth year of the reign of Darius, the king.
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And the sons of Israel, the priests and the Levites and the rest of the sons of the captivity, kept the dedication of this house of God with joy,
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and they offered at the dedication of this house of God one hundred bullocks, two hundred rams, four hundred lambs; and as the sin of all Israel, twelve he goats, according to the number of the tribes of Israel.
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And they set the priests in their divisions and the Levites in their courses over the work of God, which
is at Jerusalem, as it is written in the book of Moses.
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And the sons of the captivity kept the passover upon the fourteenth
day of the first month.
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For the priests and the Levites were purified together, all of them
were pure, and killed the passover for all the sons of the captivity and for their brethren, the priests, and for themselves.
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And the sons of Israel who had returned out of captivity and all those who had separated themselves unto them from the uncleanness of the Gentiles of the land, to seek the LORD God of Israel, ate
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and kept the feast of unleavened bread seven days with joy; for the LORD had made them joyful and turned the heart of the king of Assyria unto them, to strengthen their hands in the work of the house of God, the God of Israel.