1 Esdras 5:46-48

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Worship Begins Again

⁴⁶ When the seventh month came and the Israelites were all in their own homes, they gathered with a single purpose in the square before the first gate toward the east.^{(A) 47} Then Jeshua son of Jozadak, with his fellow priests, and Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, with his kinsmen, took their places and prepared the altar of the God of Israel,^{(B) 48} to offer burnt offerings upon it, in accordance with the directions in the book of Moses the man of God.