1. Then Darius the king made a decree, and they sought in the house of the books of the treasuries placed there in Babylon,
2. 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. `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. three rows of rolled stones, and a row of new wood, and the outlay let be given out of the king's house.