Ezr 3:1-7 | ESV | STEP | When the seventh month came , and the children of Israel were in the towns , the people gathered as one man to Jerusalem .

Ezra 3:1-7

Rebuilding the Altar

1 ^aWhen the seventh month came, and the children of Israel were in the towns, the people gathered as one man to Jerusalem. 2 Then arose Jeshua the son of Jozadak, with his fellow priests, and ^bZerubbabel the son of ^cShealtiel with his kinsmen, and they built the altar of the God of Israel, to offer burnt offerings on it, ^das it is written in the Law of Moses the ^eman of God. 3 They set the altar in its place, ^ffor fear was on them because of the peoples of the lands, and ^gthey offered burnt offerings on it to the Lord, burnt offerings morning and evening. 4 ^hAnd they kept the Feast of Booths, ⁱas it is written, ^jand offered the daily burnt offerings by number according to the rule, as each day required, 5 and after that the regular burnt ^kofferings, the offerings at the new moon ^land at all the appointed feasts of the Lord, and the offerings of everyone who made a freewill offering to the Lord. 6 From the first day of the seventh month they began to offer burnt offerings to the Lord. But the foundation of the temple of the Lord was not yet laid. 7 So they gave money to the masons and the carpenters, ^mand food, drink, and oil to the Sidonians and the Tyrians ⁿto bring cedar trees from Lebanon to the sea, to Joppa, ^oaccording to the grant that they had from Cyrus king of Persia.