At the commandment of Darius king of Persia, after the Temple was built and dedicated, the children of Israel keep the feast of unleavened bread.

Then king Darius gave commandment, and they made search in the [a]library of the treasures, which were there laid up in Babel.

And there was found in a [b]coffer (in the palace that was in the province of the Medes) a volume, and therein was it thus written, as a memorial,

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Footnotes

  1. Ezra 6:1 Hebrew, house of books.
  2. Ezra 6:2 Wherein were the acts of the kings of the Medes and Persians.

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