1. Then Sisinnes the governor of Coelesyria and Phoenicia, and Sathrabuzanes, with their companions, following the commandments of king Darius,
2. did very carefully oversee the holy works, assisting the elders of the Jews and rulers of the temple.
3. And so the holy works prospered, while Aggaeus and Zacharias the prophets prophesied.
4. And they finished these things by the commandment of the Lord, the God of Israel, and with the consent of Cyrus, Darius, and Artaxerxes, kings of the Persians.
5. And thus was the house finished by the three and twentieth day of the month Adar, in the sixth year of king Darius.
6. And the children of Israel, the priests, and the Levites, and the other that were of the captivity, that were added to them, did according to the things written in the book of Moses.
7. And to the dedication of the temple of the Lord they offered a hundred bullocks, two hundred rams, four hundred lambs;
8. and twelve he-goats for the sin of all Israel, according to the number of the twelve princes of the tribes of Israel.
9. The priests also and the Levites stood arrayed in their vestments, according to their kindred, for the services of the Lord, the God of Israel, according to the book of Moses: and the porters at every gate.
10. And the children of Israel that came out of the captivity held the passover the fourteenth day of the first month, when the priests and the Levites were sanctified together,