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They also celebrated the Feast of Booths as prescribed and offered the holocausts required for each day.

[a]In addition, they presented the regular burnt offerings and the sacrifices prescribed for the new moons and for the festivals sacred to the Lord, as well as all the free-will offerings made to the Lord. From the first day of the seventh month they began to present burnt offerings to the Lord, even though the foundations of the temple of the Lord had not yet been laid.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezra 3:5 The returning exiles did not wait until the temple was rebuilt to make sacrifices to God because they realized their great need for God and how their disobedience had destroyed them.