But it was in the fortress of Ecbatana in the province of Media(A) that a scroll was found with this record written on it:

In the first year of King Cyrus, he issued a decree(B) concerning the house of God in Jerusalem:

Let the house be rebuilt as a place for offering sacrifices, and let its original foundations be retained.[a] Its height is to be ninety feet[b] and its width ninety feet,(C) with three layers of cut[c] stones and one of timber.(D) The cost is to be paid from the royal treasury.[d](E)

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Footnotes

  1. 6:3 Lit be brought forth
  2. 6:3 Lit 60 cubits
  3. 6:4 Or huge
  4. 6:4 Lit the king’s house

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