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1 Esdras 5:72-73 Good News Bible Anglicised (GNBDC)

72. Then the people who had been living in the land began to harass the Jews; they cut off their supplies and kept them from building.

73. These people plotted, agitated, and rioted so much that they prevented the Temple from being completed during the reign of Cyrus. The work was halted until Darius became emperor, two years later.

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