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And there was found at Achmetha in the fortress that is in the province of Media a roll, and therein was a record thus written:

In the first year of king Cyrus, king Cyrus made a decree [concerning] the house of God at Jerusalem: Let the house be built for a place where they offer sacrifices, and let its foundations be solidly laid; its height sixty cubits, its breadth sixty cubits,

[with] three rows of great stones, and a row of new timber; and let the expenses be given out of the king's house:

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