3 Esdras 7

¹Then Sisennes the deputy of Coelesyria, and Phenice, and Satrabuzanes, and their fellows, obeying those things which were decreed of Darius the king

²applied the sacred works most diligently, working together with the ancients of the Jews, the Princes of Syria.

³And the sacred works prospered, Aggeus & Zacharias the Prophets prophesying.

⁴And they accomplished all things by the precept of our Lord the God of Israel, and by the counsel of Cyrus, & Darius, and Artaxerxes the king of the Persians.

⁵And our house was a finishing until the three and twentieth day of the month of Adar, the sixth year of Darius the king.

⁶And the children of Israel, and the Priests and Levites, and the rest that were of the captivity, which were added, did according to those things that are written in the book of Moyses.

⁷And they offered for the dedication of the temple of our Lord, oxen an hundred, rams two hundred, lambs four hundred.

⁸And kids for the sins of all Israel, twelve, according to the number of the tribes of Israel.

⁹And the Priests & Levites stood clothed with stoles by tribes, over all the works of our Lord the God of Israel, according to the book of Moyses, & the porters at every gate.

¹⁰And the children of Israel, with them that were of the captivity, celebrated the phase the fourteenth moon of the first month, when the Priests & Levites were sanctified.

¹¹All the children of the captivity were not sanctified together, because all the Levites were sanctified together.

¹²And all the children of the captivity immolated the phase, both for their brethren the Priests, & for themselves.

¹³And the children of Israel did eat, they that were of the captivity, all that remained apart from all the abominations of the nations of the land seeking our Lord.

¹⁴And they celebrated the festival day of Azymes seven days feasting in the sight of our Lord.

¹⁵Because he turned the counsel of the king of the Assirians toward them, to strengthen their hands to the works of our Lord the God of Israel.