Ezra 3:3-5

Contemporary English Version

³^(A) And they built the altar where it had stood before,^[a] even though they were afraid of the people who were already living around there. Then every morning and evening they burned sacrifices and offerings to the Lord.

⁴^(B) The people followed the rules for celebrating the Festival of Shelters and offered the proper sacrifices each day. ⁵^(C) They offered sacrifices to please the Lord,^[b] sacrifices at each New Moon Festival, and sacrifices at the rest of the Lord's festivals. Every offering the people had brought voluntarily was also presented to the Lord.

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Footnotes

3.3 where it had stood before: One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.
3.5 sacrifices to please the Lord: In traditional translations these sacrifices are usually called “whole burnt offerings” (see Leviticus 1.1-16).