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And the people of Israel, the priests, the Levites, and the rest of those from the captivity who joined them, did according to what was written in the book of Moses.
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and they completed it by the command of the Lord God of Israel. So with the consent of Cyrus and Darius and Artaxerxes, kings of the Persians,
5
the holy house was finished by the twenty-third day of the month of Adar, in the sixth year of King Darius.
6
And the people of Israel, the priests, the Levites, and the rest of those from the captivity who joined them, did according to what was written in the book of Moses.
7
They offered at the dedication of the temple of the Lord one hundred bulls, two hundred rams, four hundred lambs,
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and twelve he-goats for the sin of all Israel, according to the number of the twelve leaders of the tribes of Israel;
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