1 Esdras 4:56-58

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⁵⁶ He wrote that land and wages should be provided for all who guarded the city.^{(A) 57} And he sent back from Babylon all the vessels that Cyrus had set apart; everything that Cyrus had ordered to be done, he also commanded to be done and to be sent to Jerusalem.^(B)

Zerubbabel’s Prayer

⁵⁸ When the young man went out, he lifted up his face to heaven toward Jerusalem and praised the King of heaven, saying,^(C)