Ezra 3:1-3

New Catholic Bible

Chapter 3

Restoration of the Altar. ¹ When the seventh month came and the Israelites had settled in their towns, the people gathered in Jerusalem as a single entity. ² Then Jeshua, the son of Jozadak, with his fellow priests, and Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, with his brothers, set out to rebuild the altar of the God of Israel, in order to offer upon it the holocausts as prescribed in the law of Moses, the man of God.

³ Despite their fear of the peoples that surrounded them, they erected the altar on its former site, and upon it they presented burnt offerings to the Lord both morning and evening.