Legacy Standard Bible

Ezra 3:7-9

7Then they gave money to the masons and 1carpenters, and afood, drink, and oil to the Sidonians and to the Tyrians, bto bring cedar wood from Lebanon to the sea at cJoppa, according to the permission they had 2from dCyrus king of Persia.

The Foundation of the Temple of Yahweh

8Now in the second year of their coming to the house of God at Jerusalem in the second month, aZerubbabel the son of Shealtiel and Jeshua the son of Jozadak and the rest of their brothers the priests and the Levites, and all who came from the captivity to Jerusalem, began the work and bappointed the Levites from twenty years and older to direct the work of the house of Yahweh. 9Then aJeshua with his sons and brothers stood united with Kadmiel and his sons, the sons of 1Judah and the sons of Henadad with their sons and brothers the Levites, to direct those who do the work in the house of God.