1. King Darius then issued an order, and they searched in the archives stored in the treasury at Babylon.
2. A scroll was found in the citadel of Ecbatana in the province of Media, and this was written on it: Memorandum:
3. In the first year of King Cyrus, the king issued a decree concerning the temple of God in Jerusalem: Let the temple be rebuilt as a place to present sacrifices, and let its foundations be laid. It is to be sixty cubits high and sixty cubits wide,
4. with three courses of large stones and one of timbers. The costs are to be paid by the royal treasury.