1And the seventh month arrived, and the children of Israel in their towns and the people assembled as one man in Jerusalem. 2And Yeshua, son of Yozedeq, and his brothers the Priests, and Zurbabeil, son of Shalathiel, and his brothers stood up, and they built an altar to the God of Israel to offer sacrifices upon it, just as it is written in the law of Moshe, the Prophet of God. 3And the altar was fitted on its position, because great fear was upon them from the Gentiles who dwelt in the cities, and they offered up burnt offerings upon it to LORD JEHOVAH, a burnt offering at dawn and at sunset. 4And they made the Feast of Tabernacles, as it is written, and offerings day to day, in number according to the Torah, the set number day by day. 5And after that the continual burnt offering for the month and for all the holy feasts of LORD JEHOVAH, and for everyone who chose the will of LORD JEHOVAH. 6From the first of the seventh month they began to offer burnt offerings to LORD JEHOVAH, and until now the Temple of LORD JEHOVAH has not been finished. 7And they gave money to the Stone Masons and to the Carpenters, and for food and for drink, and oil for the Tyrians and for the Tsidonians, to bring trees of cedar from Lebanon on the sea to Yoppa, just as Kurash, King of Persia, wrote to them.

8In the second year when they entered the house of LORD JEHOVAH in Jerusalem, in the second month, Zurbabeil son of Shalathiel, and Yeshua son of Yozedeq, and the rest of their brothers, and the Priests and the Levites and everyone who entered from captivity into Jerusalem sent and appointed the Levites, from the sons of twenty years and above, to be Governors over the work of the house of LORD JEHOVAH. 9And Yeshua and his brothers stood, and his sons and Qadmia and his sons, and the children of Hudia as one, that they would be doing the work of the house of LORD JEHOVAH, the children of Hendar and their sons, and their brothers the Levites.

10And they laid the foundation of the building of the temple of LORD JEHOVAH, and the Priests stood clothed and held rams’ horns, and were sounding on them, and the Levites the children of Asaph on the shofar, to glorify LORD JEHOVAH by the agency of David King of Israel. 11And they knelt in thanksgiving and with hymns to LORD JEHOVAH, “Because he is good and his grace over Israel is for eternity!”, and all the people shouted with great jubilation with hymns of praise to LORD JEHOVAH, because of the completion of the house of LORD JEHOVAH. 12And many of the Priests and the Levites, Chiefs of the elder fathers, because they saw this house in its first glory when this house was finished, they wept with a loud voice, and there were many who were lifting up their voice with the horns and with joy. 13And there were no people who heard the sound of the horns, because of the sound of the great weeping of the people, because the people were sounding with the horns with a loud voice, and the sound of the weeping was heard for a long distance.