1 Esdras 5:53-55

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

⁵³ 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. ⁵⁴ They gave money to the masons and the carpenters, and food and drink ⁵⁵ and carts^[a] to the Sidonians and the Tyrians, to bring cedar logs from Lebanon and convey them in rafts to the harbour of Joppa, according to the decree that they had in writing from King Cyrus of the Persians.