Ezra 6
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Ezra 6:7-12

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, 1I 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 2pray for the lives of the king and his sons. 11And I issued a decree that 3any person who violates this decree, a timber shall be pulled out of his house and he shall be impaled on it; and 4his house shall be turned into a refuse heap on account of this. 12May the God who 5has caused His name to dwell there overthrow any king or people who 6attempts to 7change 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!”

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Notes

  1. 1. Ezra 6:8 Ezra 6:4; 7:14-22 ↩
  2. 2. Ezra 6:10 Ezra 7:23; Jer 29:7; 1 Tim 2:1, 2 ↩
  3. 3. Ezra 6:11 Ezra 7:26 ↩
  4. 4. Ezra 6:11 Dan 2:5; 3:29 ↩
  5. 5. Ezra 6:12 Deut 12:5, 11; 1 Kin 9:3 ↩
  6. 6. Ezra 6:12 Lit sends his hand ↩
  7. 7. Ezra 6:12 Or violate ↩

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