They also celebrated the (A)Feast of [a]Booths, (B)as it is written, and offered [b]the prescribed number of burnt offerings daily, (C)according to the ordinance, [c]as each day required; and afterward there was a (D)continual burnt offering, also (E)for the new moons and (F)for all the appointed festivals of the Lord that were consecrated, and from everyone who offered a [d]voluntary offering to the Lord. From the first day of the seventh month they began to offer burnt offerings to the Lord, but the foundation of the temple of the Lord had not been laid.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezra 3:4 Or Tabernacles
  2. Ezra 3:4 Lit by number
  3. Ezra 3:4 Lit a day’s word on its day
  4. Ezra 3:5 Or freewill offering

Then in accordance with what is written, they celebrated the Festival of Tabernacles(A) with the required number of burnt offerings prescribed for each day. After that, they presented the regular burnt offerings, the New Moon(B) sacrifices and the sacrifices for all the appointed sacred festivals of the Lord,(C) as well as those brought as freewill offerings to the Lord. On the first day of the seventh month they began to offer burnt offerings to the Lord, though the foundation of the Lord’s temple had not yet been laid.

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