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Preparations for Rebuilding the Temple

So they provided money[a] for the masons and carpenters, and food, beverages, and olive oil for the people of Sidon and Tyre, so that they would bring cedar timber from Lebanon to the seaport[b] at Joppa, in accord with the edict of King Cyrus of Persia.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezra 3:7 tn Heb “silver.”
  2. Ezra 3:7 tn Heb “to the sea”

Rebuilding the Temple

Then they gave money to the masons and carpenters,(A) and gave food and drink and olive oil to the people of Sidon and Tyre, so that they would bring cedar logs(B) by sea from Lebanon(C) to Joppa, as authorized by Cyrus(D) king of Persia.

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