1After this the heads of ancestral houses were chosen to go up, according to their tribes, with their wives and sons and daughters and their male and female servants and their livestock.
2And Darius sent with them a thousand cavalry to take them back to Jerusalem in safety, with the music of drums and flutes;
3all their kindred were making merry. And he made them go up with them.
4 told them not to share in the holy things until a high priest should appear wearing Urim and Thummim.
41All those of Israel, twelve or more years of age, besides male and female servants, were forty-two thousand three hundred sixty; their male and female servants were seven thousand three hundred thirty-seven; there were two hundred forty-five musicians and singers.
42There were four hundred thirty-five camels, seven thousand thirty-six horses, two hundred forty-five mules, and five thousand five hundred twenty-five donkeys.
43Some of the heads of families, when they came to the temple of God that is in Jerusalem, vowed that, to the best of their ability, they would erect the house on its site
44and that they would give to the sacred treasury for the work a thousand minas of gold, five thousand minas of silver, and one hundred priests’ vestments.
45 settled in Jerusalem and its region and the temple singers, the gatekeepers, and all Israel in their towns.
Worship Begins Again46 as it is commanded in the law, and offered the proper sacrifices every day
51and thereafter the regular offerings and sacrifices on Sabbaths and at new moons and at all the consecrated feasts.
52And 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.
53 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 that they had in writing from King Cyrus of the Persians.
The Foundations of the Temple Laid54 those in Judea, cut off their supplies, and hindered their building,
70and by plots and demagoguery and uprisings they prevented the completion of the building as long as King Cyrus lived. They were kept from building for two years, until the reign of Darius.
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