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Ezra 6:1-3
Modern English Version
Ezra 6:1-3
Modern English Version
The Decree of Darius
6 Then Darius the king issued a decree and a search was made in the house of records, where the treasures were stored in Babylon. 2 At Ecbatana, in the provincial palace of the Medes, a scroll was found, and in it the following record was written:
3 “In the first year of Cyrus the king, the same Cyrus the king issued a decree concerning the temple of God at Jerusalem:
“Let the house be rebuilt, the place where they offered sacrifices, and let the foundations of it be strongly laid, to a height of sixty cubits,[a] and a width of sixty cubits.
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- Ezra 6:3 About 90 feet, or 27 meters.
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