1 Esdras 5:45-47

Revised Standard Version

⁴⁵ and that they would give to the sacred treasury for the work a thousand minas of gold, five thousand minas of silver, and one hundred priests’ garments.

⁴⁶ The priests, the Levites, and some of the people^[a] settled in Jerusalem and its vicinity; and the temple singers, the gatekeepers, and all Israel in their towns.

Worship Begins Again

⁴⁷ When the seventh month came, and the sons of Israel were each in his own home, they gathered as one man in the square before the first gate toward the east.