The house of God is finished, 7. and dedicated, 10. the feast of Pasch
is also celebrated seuen dayes with Azimes.
THEN Sisennes the deputie of Coelesyria, and Phaenice, and
Satrabuzames, and their felowes, obeying those thinges which were
decreed of Darius the king, (1 Esd 6:13) 2 applied the sacred workes
most diligently, working together with the ancientes of the Iewes, the
princes of Syria. 3 And the sacred workes prospered, Aggeus & Zacharias
the prophetes prophecying. 4 And they accomplished al thinges by the
precept of our Lord the God of Israel, and by the counsel of Cyrus, &
Darius, and Artaxerxes the king of the Persians. 5 And our house was a
finishing vntil the three and twentith day of the moneth of Adar, the
sixth yeare of Darius the king. 6 And the children of Israel, and the
Priestes and Leuites, and the rest that were of the captiuitie, which
were added did according to those thinges that are written in the booke
of Moyses. 7 And they offered for the dedication of the temple of our
Lord, oxen an hundred, rammes two hundred, lambes foure hundred. 8 And
kiddes for the sinnes of al Israel, twelue, according to the number of
the tribes of Israel. 9 And the Priestes and Leuites stood clothed with
stoles by tribes, ouer al the workes of our Lord the God of Israel,
according to the booke of Moyses, and the porters at euerie gate. 10
And the children of Israel, wih them that were of the captiuitie
celebrated the phase of the fourtenth moone of the first moneth, when
the Priestes and Leuites were sanctified. 11 Al the children of the
captiuitie were not sanctified together, because al the Leuites were
sanctified together. 12 And al the children of the captuitie immolated
the phase, both for their brethren the Priestes, and for them selues.
13 And the children of Israel did eate, they that were of the
captiuitie al that remayned apart from al the abominations of the
nations of the land seeking our Lord. 14 And they celebrated the
festiual day of Azymes seuen dayes feasting in the sight of our Lord.
15 Because he turned the counsel of the king of the Assirians toward
them, to strengthen their handes to the workes of our Lord the God of
Israel.