Ezra 6:1-3

New American Standard Bible 1995

Darius Finds Cyrus’s Decree

6 Then King Darius issued a decree, and ^(A)search was made in the ^[a]archives, where the treasures were stored in Babylon. ² In ^[b]Ecbatana in the fortress, which is ^(B)in the province of Media, a scroll was found and there was written in it as follows: “Memorandum— ^3 (C)In the first year of King Cyrus, Cyrus the king issued a decree: ‘Concerning the house of God at Jerusalem, let the ^[c]temple, the place where sacrifices are offered, be rebuilt and let its foundations be ^[d]retained, its height being 60 cubits and its width 60 cubits;