^{15 Ref} And the building of this house was complete on the third day of the month Adar, in the sixth year of the rule of Darius the king.

^{16 Ref} And the children of Israel, the priests and the Levites, and the rest of those who had come back, kept the feast of the opening of this house of God with joy.

^{17 Ref} And they gave as offerings at the opening of this house of God a hundred oxen, two hundred sheep, four hundred lambs; and for a sin-offering for all Israel, twelve he-goats, being the number of the tribes of Israel.