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Ezra 6:4

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[With] three rows of great stones, and a row of new timber: and let the expences be given out of the king’s house:

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KJV King James Version

[With] three rows of great stones, and a row of new timber: and let the expences be given out of the king’s house:

BSB Berean Standard Bible

with three layers of cut stones and one of timbers. The costs are to be paid from the royal treasury.

WEB World English Bible

with three courses of great stones, and a course of new timber: and let the expenses be given out of the king’s house.

ASV American Standard Version

with three courses of great stones, and a course of new timber: and let the expenses be given out of the king’s house.

YLT Young’s Literal Translation

three rows of rolled stones, and a row of new wood, and the outlay let be given out of the king’s house.

Surrounding context — Ezra 6

1 Then Darius the king made a decree, and search was made in the house of the rolls, where the treasures were laid up in Babylon.

2 And there was found at Achmetha, in the palace that [is] in the province of the Medes, a roll, and therein [was] a record thus written:

3 In the first year of Cyrus the king [the same] Cyrus the king made a decree [concerning] the house of God at Jerusalem, Let the house be builded, the place where they offered sacrifices, and let the foundations thereof be strongly laid; the height thereof threescore cubits, [and] the breadth thereof threescore cubits;

4 [With] three rows of great stones, and a row of new timber: and let the expences be given out of the king’s house:

5 And also let the golden and silver vessels of the house of God, which Nebuchadnezzar took forth out of the temple which [is] at Jerusalem, and brought unto Babylon, be restored, and brought again unto the temple which [is] at Jerusalem, [every one] to his place, and place [them] in the house of God.

6 Now [therefore], Tatnai, governor beyond the river, Shetharboznai, and your companions the Apharsachites, which [are] beyond the river, be ye far from thence:

7 Let the work of this house of God alone; let the governor of the Jews and the elders of the Jews build this house of God in his place.

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