1. Then king Darius instructed, and they searched in the library of books that were deposited in Babylon.
2. And there was found at Ecbatana, which is a fortified place in the province of Media, one volume, and this record was written in it:
3. "In the first year of king Cyrus, Cyrus the king decreed that the house of God, which is in Jerusalem, shall be built in the place where they immolate victims, and that they should set the foundations so as to support a height of sixty cubits and a width of sixty cubits,