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The Decree of Dari′us

Then Dari′us the king made a decree, and search was made in Babylonia, in the house of the archives where the documents were stored. And in Ecbat′ana, the capital which is in the province of Media, a scroll was found on which this was written: “A record. In the first year of Cyrus the king, Cyrus the king 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; its height shall be sixty cubits and its breadth sixty cubits,

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