Ezra 6:2-4
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition
2 But it was in Ecbatana, the capital in the province of Media, that a scroll was found on which this was written: ‘A record. 3 In the first year of his reign, King Cyrus issued a decree: Concerning the house of God at Jerusalem, let the house be rebuilt, the place where sacrifices are offered and burnt-offerings are brought;[a] its height shall be sixty cubits and its width sixty cubits, 4 with three courses of hewn stones and one course of timber; let the cost be paid from the royal treasury.
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- Ezra 6:3 Meaning of Aram uncertain
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