Ezr 6:3-5 | ESV | STEP | In the first year of Cyrus the king , Cyrus the king issued a decree : Concerning the house of God at Jerusalem , let the house be rebuilt , the place where sacrifices were offered , and let its foundations be retained . Its height shall be sixty cubits and its breadth sixty cubits ,

Ezra 6:3-5

3 In the first year of Cyrus the king, Cyrus the king issued a decree: Concerning the house of God at Jerusalem, let the house be rebuilt, the place where sacrifices were offered, and let its foundations be retained. Its height shall be sixty cubits ^{▼▼A cubit was about 18 inches or 45 centimeters} and its breadth sixty cubits, 4 ^bwith three layers of great stones and one layer of timber. Let the cost be paid from the royal treasury. 5 And also ^clet the gold and silver vessels of the house of God, which Nebuchadnezzar took out of the temple that is in Jerusalem and brought to Babylon, be restored and brought back to the temple that is in Jerusalem, each to its place. You shall put them in the house of God.”