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"In the first year of the reign of Cyrus, King Cyrus commanded that the house of the Lord at Jerusalem should be built again, where they do sacrifice with continual fire,
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whose height shall be sixty cubits and the breadth sixty cubits, with three rows of hewn stones and one row of new wood of that country, and the expenses thereof to be given out of the house of King Cyrus.
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And that the holy vessels of the house of the Lord, both of gold and silver, that Nebuchadnezzar took out of the house at Jerusalem and brought to Babylon, should be restored to the house at Jerusalem and be set in the place where they were before."
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And also he commanded that Tattenai the governor of Syria and Phoenicia, and Shethar-boznai, and their companions, and those who were appointed rulers in Syria and Phoenicia, should be careful not to meddle with the place, but suffer Zerubbabel, the servant of the Lord and governor of Judea, and the elders of the Jews, to build the house of the Lord in that place.
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"I have commanded also to have it built up whole again, and that they look diligently to help those that be of the captivity of the Jews till the house of the Lord be finished,
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and out of the tribute of Coelesyria and Phoenicia a portion carefully be given to these men for the sacrifices of the Lord, that is, to Zerubbabel the governor, for bullocks and rams and lambs,
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and also corn, salt, wine, and oil, and that continually every year without further question, according as the priests who are in Jerusalem shall signify to be daily spent,
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that offerings may be made to the Most High God for the king and for his children, and that they may pray for their lives."
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And he commanded that whosoever should transgress, yea, or make light of any thing before spoken or written, out of his own house should a tree be taken and he thereon be hanged, and all his goods seized for the king.
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"The Lord therefore, whose name is there called upon, utterly destroy every king and nation that stretcheth out his hand to hinder or damage that house of the Lord in Jerusalem.
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I, Darius the king, have ordained that according unto these things it be done with diligence."