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1Then Darius the king made a decree , and the house of the archives , where the treasures were laid up in Babylon, was searched.
2A scroll was found at Achmetha, in the palace that is in the province of Media , and in it this was written for a record :
13Then Tattenai , the governor beyond the River , Shetharbozenai, and their companions did accordingly with all diligence, because Darius the king had sent a decree.
14The elders of the Jews built and prospered , through the prophesying of Haggai the prophet and Zechariah the son of Iddo . They built and finished it , according to the commandment of the God of Israel , and according to the decree of Cyrus , Darius , and Artaxerxes king of Persia .
15This house was finished on the third day of the month Adar, which was in the sixth year of the reign of Darius the king .
16The children of Israel , the priests , the Levites , and the rest of the children of the captivity , kept the dedication of this house of God with joy .
17They offered at the dedication of this house of God one hundred bulls , two hundred rams , four hundred lambs; and for a sin offering for all Israel , twelve male goats , according to the number of the tribes of Israel .
18They set the priests in their divisions and the Levites in their courses , for the service of God which is at Jerusalem , as it is written in the book of Moses .
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 . They killed the Passover for all the children of the captivity , for their brothers the priests , and for themselves .
21The children of Israel who had returned out of the captivity , and all who had separated themselves to them from the filthiness of the nations of the land to seek the LORD , the God of Israel , ate,
22and kept the feast of unleavened bread seven days with joy ; because the LORD had made them joyful , and had turned the heart of the king of Assyria to them , to strengthen their hands in the work of God , the God of Israel ’s house .