1 Esdras 5:51-53

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⁵¹ and thereafter the regular offerings and sacrifices on Sabbaths and at new moons and at all the consecrated feasts. ⁵² And all who had made any vow to God began to offer sacrifices to God, from the new moon of the seventh month, though the temple of God was not yet built. ⁵³ They gave money to the masons and the carpenters and food and drink and carts^[a] to the Sidonians and the Tyrians to bring cedar logs from Lebanon and convey them in rafts to the harbor of Joppa, according to the decree that they had in writing from King Cyrus of the Persians.^(A)