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1Then Darius the king issued a decree and a search was made in the house of records, where the treasures were stored in Babylon.[#Ezr 4:15; 5:17]
2At Ecbatana, in the provincial palace of the Medes, a scroll was found, and in it the following record was written:
13In compliance, Tattenai, governor of the province Beyond the River, Shethar-Bozenai, and their companions speedily accomplished what Darius the king had decreed.[#Ezr 4:9]
14The rebuilding by the elders of the Jews prospered through the prophesying of Haggai the prophet and Zechariah the son of Iddo. And they built, and finished it, according to the decree of the God of Israel and according to the decrees of Cyrus, Darius, and Artaxerxes king of Persia.[#Ezr 4:24–5:2; #Ezr 7:1]
15This temple was finished on the third day of the month Adar during the sixth year of the reign of Darius the king.[#Est 3:7]
16The Israelites, the priests and the Levites, and the rest of the descendants of the captivity kept the dedication of this house of God with joy.[#1Ki 8:63; 2Ch 7:5]
17At the dedication of this house of God, they offered a hundred bulls, two hundred rams, four hundred lambs; and as a sin offering for all Israel, they offered twelve goats (according to the number of the tribes of Israel).[#Ezr 8:35]
18They appointed the priests in their divisions and the Levites in their orders for the service of God in Jerusalem, as it had been written in the Book of Moses.[#1Ch 24:1; #Nu 3:6]
19The children of the captivity kept the Passover on the fourteenth day of the first month.
20Because the priests and the Levites had purified themselves together, all of them were pure. So, they slaughtered the Passover lambs for all the descendants of the captivity, both for their brothers the priests and for themselves.[#2Ch 29:34; #2Ch 35:11]
21Then they ate together, both the Israelites who had come out of captivity and all those who had separated themselves from the uncleanness of the nations of the land, in order to seek the Lord God of Israel.[#Ezr 9:11; Ne 9:2]
22With joy they observed the Feast of Unleavened Bread for seven days because the Lord had made them joyful. He had turned the heart of the king of Assyria toward them and strengthened their hands in the work on the house of God, who is the God of Israel.[#Ezr 1:1; 7:27]