1 Esdras 5:46-48

Common English Bible

Work on the temple is delayed

⁴⁶ When the seventh month^[a] came and the Israelites were all in their own homes, they gathered together in the square near the first gate on the eastern side. ⁴⁷ Then Jeshua, Jozadak’s son with his fellow priests, and Zerubbabel, Shealtiel’s son with his group, took their positions and prepared the altar of the God of Israel ⁴⁸ to offer up entirely burned offerings, according to the stipulations in the scroll from Moses, the man of God.