Ezra 6:1-3
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition
The Decree of Darius
6 Then King Darius made a decree, and they searched the archives where the documents were stored in Babylon. 2 But it was in Ecbatana, the capital in the province of Media, that a scroll was found on which this was written: ‘A record. 3 In the first year of his reign, King Cyrus issued a decree: Concerning the house of God at Jerusalem, let the house be rebuilt, the place where sacrifices are offered and burnt-offerings are brought;[a] its height shall be sixty cubits and its width sixty cubits,
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- Ezra 6:3 Meaning of Aram uncertain
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