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And all who had made any vow to God began to offer sacrifices to God, from the new moon of the seventh month, though the temple of God was not yet built.
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They kept the feast of booths, as it is commanded in the law, and offered the proper sacrifices every day,
52
and thereafter the continual offerings and sacrifices on sabbaths and at new moons and at all the consecrated feasts.
53
And all who had made any vow to God began to offer sacrifices to God, from the new moon of the seventh month, though the temple of God was not yet built.
54
And they gave money to the masons and the carpenters, and food and drink
55
and carts to the Sidonians and the Tyrians, to bring cedar logs from Lebanon and convey them in rafts to the harbor of Joppa, according to the decree which they had in writing from Cyrus king of the Persians.
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