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Chapter 6 The Decree of Darius 1King Darius then issued an order, and they searched in the archives stored in the treasury at Babylon.2A scroll was found in the citadel of Ecbatana in the province of Media, and this was written on it: 3In the first year of King Cyrus, the king issued a decree concerning the temple of God in Jerusalem:Memorandum: Let the temple be rebuilt as a place to present sacrifices, and let its foundations be laid. It is to be ninety feetAramaic sixty cubits (about 27 meters) high and ninety feet wide,4with three courses of large stones and one of timbers. The costs are to be paid by the royal treasury.5Also, the gold and silver articles of the house of God, which Nebuchadnezzar took from the temple in Jerusalem and brought to Babylon, are to be returned to their places in the temple in Jerusalem; they are to be deposited in the house of God. 6Now then, Tattenai, governor of Trans-Euphrates, and Shethar-Bozenai and you, their fellow officials of that province, stay away from there.7Do not interfere with the work on this temple of God. Let the governor of the Jews and the Jewish elders rebuild this house of God on its site. 8Moreover, I hereby decree what you are to do for these elders of the Jews in the construction of this house of God: 11Furthermore, I decree that if anyone changes this edict, a beam is to be pulled from his house and he is to be lifted up and impaled on it. And for this crime his house is to be made a pile of rubble.12May God, who has caused his Name to dwell there, overthrow any king or people who lifts a hand to change this decree or to destroy this temple in Jerusalem.
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