Ezra 3:6
4 They also celebrated the Feast of Tabernacles in accordance with what is written, and they offered burnt offerings daily based on the number prescribed for each day.
5 After that, they presented the regular burnt offerings and those for New Moons and for all the appointed sacred feasts of the LORD, as well as all the freewill offerings brought to the LORD.
On the first day of the seventh month, the Israelites began to offer burnt offerings to the LORD, although the foundation of the temple of the LORD had not been laid.
7 They gave money to the masons and carpenters, and food and drink and oil to the people of Sidon and Tyre to bring cedar logs from Lebanon to Joppa by sea, as authorized by Cyrus king of Persia.
8 In the second month of the second year after they had arrived at the house of God in Jerusalem, Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, Jeshua son of Jozadak, and the rest of their associates including the priests, the Levites, and all who had returned to Jerusalem from the captivity, began the work. They appointed Levites twenty years of age or older to supervise the construction of the house of the LORD.
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- BSB
- On the first day of the seventh month, the Israelites began to offer burnt offerings to the LORD, although the foundation of the temple of the LORD had not been laid.
- KJV
- From the first day of the seventh month began they to offer burnt offerings unto the LORD. But the foundation of the temple of the LORD was not yet laid.
- WEB
- From the first day of the seventh month, they began to offer burnt offerings to the LORD; but the foundation of the LORD’s temple was not yet laid.
- ASV
- From the first day of the seventh month began they to offer burnt-offerings unto Jehovah: but the foundation of the temple of Jehovah was not yet laid.
- DARBY
- From the first day of the seventh month they began to offer up burnt-offerings to Jehovah. But the foundation of the temple of Jehovah was not [yet] laid.
- BLB
- From the first day of the seventh month they began to offer burnt offerings to YHWH, and the temple of YHWH had not been founded.
- ÅB
- Fra den første dag i den syvende måned begynte de å ofre brennoffere til Herren, før enda grunnvollen til Herrens tempel var lagt.
- OTB
- Fra den første dagen i den sjuende måneden begynte de å ofre brennoffer til Herren, selv om grunnvollen til Herrens tempel ennå ikke var lagt.
- B1930
- Fra den første dag i den syvende måned begynte de å ofre brennoffere til Herren, før ennu grunnvollen til Herrens tempel var lagt.