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Ezra 6:3

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In the first year of Cyrus the king, Cyrus the king made a decree: Concerning the house of God at Jerusalem, let the house be builded, the place where they offer sacrifices, and let the foundations thereof be strongly laid; the height thereof threescore cubits, and the breadth thereof threescore cubits;

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Ezra 6:3 in other translations

In the first year of Cyrus the king, Cyrus the king made a decree: Concerning God’s house at Jerusalem, let the house be built, the place where they offer sacrifices, and let its foundations be strongly laid; with its height sixty cubits, and its width sixty cubits;

Ezra 6:3 · World English Bible

Ezra 6:3 in context

  1. 1Then Darius the king made a decree, and search was made in the house of the archives, where the treasures were laid up in Babylon.
  2. 2And there was found at Achmetha, in the palace that is in the province of Media, a roll, and therein was thus written for a record:
  3. 3In the first year of Cyrus the king, Cyrus the king made a decree: Concerning the house of God at Jerusalem, let the house be builded, the place where they offer sacrifices, and let the foundations thereof be strongly laid; the height thereof threescore cubits, and the breadth thereof threescore cubits;
  4. 4with three courses of great stones, and a course of new timber: and let the expenses be given out of the king’s house.
  5. 5And also let the gold and silver vessels of the house of God, which Nebuchadnezzar took forth out of the temple which is at Jerusalem, and brought unto Babylon, be restored, and brought again unto the temple which is at Jerusalem, every one to its place; and thou shalt put them in the house of God.