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(A) And they built the altar where it had stood before,[a] even though they were afraid of the people who were already living around there. Then every morning and evening they burned sacrifices and offerings to the Lord.

(B) The people followed the rules for celebrating the Festival of Shelters and offered the proper sacrifices each day. (C) They offered sacrifices to please the Lord,[b] sacrifices at each New Moon Festival, and sacrifices at the rest of the Lord's festivals. Every offering the people had brought voluntarily was also presented to the Lord.

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Footnotes

  1. 3.3 where it had stood before: One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.
  2. 3.5 sacrifices to please the Lord: In traditional translations these sacrifices are usually called “whole burnt offerings” (see Leviticus 1.1-16).

Despite their fear(A) of the peoples around them, they built the altar on its foundation and sacrificed burnt offerings on it to the Lord, both the morning and evening sacrifices.(B) Then in accordance with what is written, they celebrated the Festival of Tabernacles(C) with the required number of burnt offerings prescribed for each day. After that, they presented the regular burnt offerings, the New Moon(D) sacrifices and the sacrifices for all the appointed sacred festivals of the Lord,(E) as well as those brought as freewill offerings to the Lord.

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