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Deuterocanonical Books of the Bible - Apocrypha by Anonymous
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And if it be found that the building of the house of the Lord
at Jerusalem hath been done with the consent of king Cyrus, and
if our lord the king be so minded, let him signify unto us
thereof.

1Esdr 6:23
Then commanded king Darius to seek among the records at
Babylon: and so at Ecbatane the palace, which is in the country
of Media, there was found a roll wherein these things were
recorded.

1Esdr 6:24
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:

1Esdr 6:25
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 expences thereof to be given out of the
house of king Cyrus:

1Esdr 6:26
And that the holy vessels of the house of the Lord, both of
gold and silver, that Nabuchodonosor 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.

1Esdr 6:27
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