The Koine Bible

Then Sisinnes the governor of Coele-Syria and Phoenicia, and Sathrabouzanes, and their associates, having carried out the things commanded by King Darius,

they were overseeing the sacred works, working together more carefully with the elders of the Jews and the temple officers

And the holy works were prospering through the prophesying of Haggai and Zechariah the prophets.

And they accomplished these things by the command of the Lord God of Israel.

And with the consent of Cyrus and Darius and Artaxerxes king of the Persians, the holy house was finished until the twenty-third day of the month Adar, in the sixth year of King Darius.

And the sons of Israel and the priests and the Levites and the rest, those from the captivity, who were added, accordingly, to those in the book of Moses

And they offered at the dedication of the house of the Lord one hundred bulls, two hundred rams, four hundred lambs.

male goats for sin, for all Israel, twelve according to number, from the leaders of Israel, twelve

And the priests and the Levites stood, arrayed by tribes for the works of the Lord God of Israel, according to the book of Moses, and the gatekeepers at each gatepost

And the sons of Israel who were out of the captivity kept the passover on the fourteenth of the first month, because the priests and the Levites had purified themselves together.

And all the sons of the captivity had not purified themselves, because the Levites had all purified themselves together.

And they sacrificed the passover for all the sons of the captivity and for their brothers the priests and for themselves

And the sons of Israel, those from the captivity, all who had been separated from the abominations of the nations of the land, seeking the Lord, ate.

And they kept the feast of unleavened bread seven days, rejoicing before the Lord

For he turned the plan of the king of the Assyrians against them, to make their hands strong upon the works of the Lord God of Israel