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          DASV: Ezra 3    

1 When the seventh month had come, and the Israelites were settled
in their towns, the people gathered together as one to Jerusalem.
2 Then Jeshua the son of Jozadak along with his fellow priests,
Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel and his family built the altar of
the God of Israel, so that they could offer burnt offerings on it,
as it is written in the law of Moses the man of God.
3 They set the altar on its base, even though they were afraid of
the local residents from other countries. They offered burnt
offerings on it to the LORD, in the morning and evening.
4 They kept the Feast of Tabernacles, just as it was written,
and offered the set number of the daily burnt offerings
according to the requirement for each day.
5 Afterward they offered the regular burnt offerings, and the
offerings for the new moons, and all the prescribed sacred feasts
of the LORD, including all those who willingly offered a freewill
offering to the LORD.

6 From the first day of the seventh month they began to offer burnt
offerings to the LORD. But the foundation of the temple of
the LORD had not yet been laid.
7 So they gave money to the masons and carpenters, and food,
drink and olive oil to those from Sidon and Tyre for them to
bring cedar trees from Lebanon by sea to Joppa, according to
the grant that they had from Cyrus king of Persia.
8 Now in the second year after their arrival at the temple of
God in Jerusalem, in the second month, Zerubbabel the son of
Shealtiel, Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and the rest of their
fellow priests and Levites, and all those who had come out
of captivity to Jerusalem, began the rebuilding work having
appointed the Levites, from twenty years old and older to
oversee the work of the temple of the LORD.
9 Then Jeshua with his sons and his brothers, Kadmiel and his
sons, the sons of Judah, began their oversight of the workmen
in the temple of God along with the sons of Henadad, with
their sons and their brothers the Levites.

10 When the builders laid the foundation of the temple of the
LORD, they set the priests in their vestments with trumpets,
and the Levites the sons of Asaph with cymbals, took their
positions in order to praise the LORD, according to the
directions of David king of Israel.
11 They sang antiphonally to one another praising and giving
thanks to the LORD: "For he is good, for his steadfast love
endures forever toward Israel." Then all the people shouted
loudly as they praised the LORD, because the foundation of
the temple of the LORD had been laid.
12 But many of the older priests, Levites and heads of families
who had seen the first temple, when the foundation of this
house was laid before their eyes, wept aloud while many
of the others were shouting for joy.
13 People could not distinguish the sound of the shout for joy
from the sound of the people weeping, for the people were
shouting so loudly that the sound could be heard a long
way away.

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