Old Testament · SCRIPTURE
Ezra 6:4
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with three layers of cut stones and one of timbers. The costs are to be paid from the royal treasury.
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[With] three rows of great stones, and a row of new timber: and let the expenses be given out of the king’s house:
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with three courses of great stones and a course of new timber. Let the expenses be given out of the king’s house.
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ASVAmerican Standard Version
with three courses of great stones, and a course of new timber: and let the expenses be given out of the king’s house.
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Ezra 6
2 And a scroll was found in the fortress of Ecbatana, in the province of Media, with the following written on it: Memorandum:
3 In the first year of King Cyrus, he issued a decree concerning the house of God in Jerusalem: Let the house be rebuilt as a place for offering sacrifices, and let its foundations be firmly laid. It is to be sixty cubits high and sixty cubits wide,
4 with three layers of cut stones and one of timbers. The costs are to be paid from the royal treasury.
5 Furthermore, the gold and silver articles of the house of God, which Nebuchadnezzar took from the temple in Jerusalem and carried to Babylon, must also be returned to the temple in Jerusalem and deposited in the house of God.
6 Therefore Darius decreed: To Tattenai governor of the region west of the Euphrates, Shethar-bozenai, and your associates and officials in the region: You must stay away from that place!
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