Ezra 6:3-12

31In the first year of King Cyrus, Cyrus the king issued a decree: ‘Concerning the house of God in Jerusalem, let the 2temple, the place where sacrifices are offered, be rebuilt, and let 3its foundations be repaired, its height being 4sixty cubits and its width sixty cubits, 45with three layers of large stones and 6one layer of timber. And the cost is to be paid from the 7royal treasury. 5Also 8the gold and silver utensils of the house of God, which Nebuchadnezzar took from the temple in Jerusalem and brought to Babylon, are to be returned and 9brought to their places in the temple in Jerusalem; and you shall put them in the house of God.’

6“Now as for you, 10Tattenai, governor of the province beyond the Euphrates River, Shethar-bozenai, and 11your colleagues, the officials of the provinces beyond the River, 12stay away from there. 7Leave that work on the house of God alone; let the governor of the Jews and the elders of the Jews rebuild that house of God on its site. 8Furthermore, 13I issue a decree concerning what you are to do for these elders of Judah in the rebuilding of that house of God: the full cost is to be paid to those people from the royal treasury out of the taxes of the provinces beyond the Euphrates River, and that without interruption. 9And whatever is needed, bulls, rams, and lambs for burnt offerings to the God of heaven, and wheat, salt, wine, and anointing oil, as the priests in Jerusalem order, it is to be given to them daily without fail, 10so that they may offer acceptable sacrifices to the God of heaven and 14pray for the lives of the king and his sons. 11And I issued a decree that 15any person who violates this decree, a timber shall be pulled out of his house and he shall be impaled on it; and 16his house shall be turned into a refuse heap on account of this. 12May the God who 17has caused His name to dwell there overthrow any king or people who 18attempts to 19change it, so as to destroy that house of God in Jerusalem. I, Darius, have issued this decree; it is to be carried out with all diligence!”