Good News [1976], GOOD NEWS BIBLE WITH DEUTEROCANONICALS / APOCRYPHA Today's English Version (AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY, New York) [word count] [B15000].
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The Temple Is Dedicated
(Ezra 6.13–18)
1 Then Governor Sisinnes, Shethar
Bozenai, and their fellow
officials did exactly as the emperor
had commanded
2 and gave careful
supervision to the work on the Temple,
helping the Jewish leaders and
Temple officials.
3 The workers made
good progress with the building of
the Temple, encouraged by the
prophets Haggai and Zechariah. note
4 The Jews completed the building
according to the command of the
Lord, the God of Israel, and with the
permission of Cyrus, Darius, and Artaxerxes,
emperors of Persia.
5 The
Temple was completed on the
twenty-third day of the month of
Adar in the sixth year of the reign of
Emperor Darius.
6 Then the people
of Israel—the priests, the Levites,
and all the others who had returned
from exile and joined them—carried
out all the commands in the Law of
Moses.
7 For the dedication they offered
100 bulls, 200 sheep, and 400
lambs as sacrifices,
8 and 12 goats as
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offerings for sin, one goat for the
leader of each tribe of Israel.
9 The
priests in their robes and the Levites
took their positions, family by family,
for the Temple services of the
Lord, the God of Israel, according to
the instructions contained in the
book of Moses. The Temple guards
stood at each gate.
The Passover
(Ezra 6.19–22)
10 The people of Israel who had returned
from exile celebrated the
Passover on the fourteenth day of
the first month of the following year.
The priests and Levites had purified
themselves at the same time. note
11 Not
all the Jews who had returned purified
themselves at that time, but the
Levites did. note
12 The Levites killed the
animals for the Passover sacrifices
for all the people who had returned,
for the priests, and for themselves.
13 The sacrifices were eaten by all
the Israelites who had returned from
exile; they worshiped the Lord and
rejected the pagan ways of the other
people who were living in the land.
14 For seven days they celebrated the
Festival of Unleavened Bread. They
rejoiced in the presence of the Lord,
15 the God of Israel, because he had
made the plans of the emperor of
Assyria note favorable to them and had
supported them in their work.
Good News [1976], GOOD NEWS BIBLE WITH DEUTEROCANONICALS / APOCRYPHA Today's English Version (AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY, New York) [word count] [B15000].
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