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1Then King Darius issued a decree, and they searched the archives which were deposited there at the treasury office in Babylon.
2A scroll was located in Ecbatana, in the citadel that is in the province of Media, and this was written on it:
13Then Tattenai governor of Trans-Euphrates, Shethar Bozenai, and their associates—because King Darius had sent his decree—did exactly what it said.
14So the elders of the Judeans continued to build and prosper throughout the prophetic ministry of Haggai the prophet and Zechariah grandson of Iddo. They finished building the temple by the decree of the God of Israel and by the decree of Cyrus, Darius, and King Artaxerxes of Persia.
15This house was finished on the third day of the month of Adar, during the sixth year of the reign of King Darius.[#6:15 That is, 515 BC]
16The Israelites—the priests, the Levites, and the rest of the exiles—dedicated this house of God with joy.
17For the dedication of this house of God, they offered one hundred bulls, two hundred rams, four hundred lambs, as well as twelve male goats for sin offerings for all Israel, corresponding to the number of the tribes of Israel.
18They appointed the priests in their divisions and the Levites in their assigned groups for the service of the God who is in Jerusalem, as it is written in the Book of Moses.
19The exiles celebrated the Passover on the fourteenth day of the first month.
20Because the priests and the Levites together had purified themselves, all of them were ceremonially pure. The Levites slaughtered the Passover lambs for all of the exiles, for their brothers the priests, and for themselves.
21The Israelites who had returned from the exile ate the Passover lambs, together with every person who had separated himself from the impurity of the nations of the land in order to join them, in order to seek the Lord , the God of Israel.
22For seven days they celebrated the Festival of Unleavened Bread joyfully, because the Lord had made them joyful, since he had turned the heart of the king of Assyria toward them, to encourage them in the work on the house of God, the God of Israel.