^{1 Ref} Then Darius the king made a decree, and they sought in the house of the books of the treasuries placed there in Babylon,

^{2 Ref} and there hath been found at Achmetha, in a palace that `is' in the province of Media, a roll, and a record thus written within it `is':

^{3 Ref} `In the first year of Cyrus the king, Cyrus the king hath made a decree concerning the house of God in Jerusalem: the house let be builded in the place where they are sacrificing sacrifices, and its foundations strongly laid; its height sixty cubits, its breadth sixty cubits;

^{4 Ref} three rows of rolled stones, and a row of new wood, and the outlay let be given out of the king's house.

^{5 Ref} `And also, the vessels of the house of God, of gold and silver, that Nebuchadnezzar took forth out of the temple that `is' in Jerusalem, and brought to Babylon, let be given back, and go to the temple that `is' in Jerusalem, `each' to its place, and put `them' down in the house of God.