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Materials arrive and Levites oversee the builders.
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Ezra 3:7-9

Materials arrive and Levites oversee the builders

Ezra 3 · Ezra 3

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7So they gave money to the stonecutters and to the craftsmen, and food and drink and oil to the Sidonians and the Tyrians, to bring cedar timber from Lebanon to the sea at Joppa, according to the authorization of Cyrus king of Persia upon them.

8And in the second year after their coming to the house of God at Jerusalem, in the second month, Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel and Jeshua son of Jozadak, and the rest of their brothers the priests and the Levites, and all who had come from the captivity to Jerusalem, began and appointed the Levites from twenty years old and upward to oversee the work of the house of Yahweh.

9Then Jeshua, his sons and his brothers, and Kadmiel and his sons, the sons of Judah, stood together as one to oversee those doing the work in the house of God, along with the sons of Henadad, their sons and their brothers, the Levites.

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