3:1
iamque venerat mensis septimus et erant filii Israhel incivitatibus suis congregatus est ergo populus quasi vir unus inHierusalem

3:2
et surrexit Iosue filius Iosedech et fratres eius sacerdoteset Zorobabel filius Salathihel et fratres eius etaedificaverunt altare Dei Israhel ut offerrent in eoholocaustomata sicut scriptum est in lege Mosi viri Dei

3:3
conlocaverunt autem altare super bases suas deterrentibuseos per circuitum populis terrarum et obtulerunt super illudholocaustum Domino mane et vespere

3:4
feceruntque sollemnitatem tabernaculorum sicut scriptum estet holocaustum diebus singulis per ordinem secundum praeceptumopus diei in die suo

3:5
et post haec holocaustum iuge tam in kalendis quam inuniversis sollemnitatibus Domini quae erant consecratae et inomnibus in quibus ultro offerebatur munus Deo

3:6
a primo die mensis septimi coeperunt offerre holocaustumDomino porro templum Dei fundatum necdum erat

3:7
dederunt autem pecunias latomis et cementariis cibum quoqueet potum et oleum Sidoniis Tyriisque ut deferrent ligna cedrinade Libano ad mare Ioppes iuxta quod praeceperat Cyrus rexPersarum eis

3:8
anno autem secundo adventus eorum ad templum Dei inHierusalem mense secundo coeperunt Zorobabel filius Salathihelet Iosue filius Iosedech et reliqui de fratribus eorumsacerdotes et Levitae et omnes qui venerant de captivitate inHierusalem et constituerunt Levitas a viginti annis et supra uturguerent opus Domini

3:9
stetitque Iosue filii eius et fratres eius Cedmihel et filiieius et filii Iuda quasi unus ut instarent super eos quifaciebant opus in templo Dei filii Enadad filii eorum etfratres eorum Levitae

3:10
fundato igitur a cementariis templo Domini steteruntsacerdotes in ornatu suo cum tubis et Levitae filii Asaph incymbalis ut laudarent Deum per manus David regis Israhel

3:11
et concinebant in hymnis et confessione Domino quoniambonus quoniam in aeternum misericordia eius super Israhel omnisquoque populus vociferabatur clamore magno in laudando Dominumeo quod fundatum esset templum Domini

3:12
plurimi etiam de sacerdotibus et Levitis et principespatrum seniores qui viderant templum prius cum fundatum essetet hoc templum in oculis eorum flebant voce magna et multivociferantes in laetitia elevabant vocem

3:13
nec poterat quisquam agnoscere vocem clamoris laetantium etvocem fletus populi commixtim enim populus vociferabaturclamore magno et vox audiebatur procul

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003:001
And when the seventh month was come, and the children of Israel were in the cities, the people gathered themselves together as one man to Jerusalem.

003:002
Then stood up Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and his brethren the priests, and Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and his brethren, and builded the altar of the God of Israel, to offer burnt offerings thereon, as it is written in the law of Moses the man of God.

003:003
And they set the altar upon his bases; for fear was upon them because of the people of those countries: and they offered burnt offerings thereon unto the LORD, even burnt offerings morning and evening.

003:004
They kept also the feast of tabernacles, as it is written, and offered the daily burnt offerings by number, according to the custom, as the duty of every day required;

003:005
And afterward offered the continual burnt offering, both of the new moons, and of all the set feasts of the LORD that were consecrated, and of every one that willingly offered a freewill offering unto the LORD.

003:006
From the first day of the seventh month began they to offer burnt offerings unto the LORD. But the foundation of the temple of the LORD was not yet laid.

003:007
They gave money also unto the masons, and to the carpenters; and meat, and drink, and oil, unto them of Zidon, and to them of Tyre, to bring cedar trees from Lebanon to the sea of Joppa, according to the grant that they had of Cyrus king of Persia.

003:008
Now in the second year of their coming unto the house of God at Jerusalem, in the second month, began Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and the remnant of their brethren the priests and the Levites, and all they that were come out of the captivity unto Jerusalem; and appointed the Levites, from twenty years old and upward, to set forward the work of the house of the LORD.

003:009
Then stood Jeshua with his sons and his brethren, Kadmiel and his sons, the sons of Judah, together, to set forward the workmen in the house of God: the sons of Henadad, with their sons and their brethren the Levites.

003:010
And when the builders laid the foundation of the temple of the LORD, they set the priests in their apparel with trumpets, and the Levites the sons of Asaph with cymbals, to praise the LORD, after the ordinance of David king of Israel.

003:011
And they sang together by course in praising and giving thanks unto the LORD; because he is good, for his mercy endureth for ever toward Israel. And all the people shouted with a great shout, when they praised the LORD, because the foundation of the house of the LORD was laid.

003:012
But many of the priests and Levites and chief of the fathers, who were ancient men, that had seen the first house, when the foundation of this house was laid before their eyes, wept with a loud voice; and many shouted aloud for joy:

003:013
So that the people could not discern the noise of the shout of joy from the noise of the weeping of the people: for the people shouted with a loud shout, and the noise was heard afar off.

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