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The .vij. Chapter.
1 Sisinnes and his companions folowe the kynges commaundement, and helpe the Iewes to builde the temple. 5 The tyme that it was built. 10 They kepe the Passouer.
[unspec A] 1 THen Sisinnes the go∣uernour in Coelosyria & Phenice, and Sath∣rabuzanes with their companions obeyed the thynges that kyng Darius had ordeyned,
2 And were diligent assisters in the holy workes, workyng with the auncientes and gouernours of the sanctuarie:
3 And so the holy workes went foorth and prospered when Aggeus and Za∣charias the prophetes prophecied.
4 And they perfourmed all thinges through the commaundement of the Lorde God of Israel, and with consent of Cyrus, Darius, and Artaxerxes kynges of Persia.
5 And thus was the holy house finished in the twentie and three day of the mo∣neth Adar, in the sixt yere of Darius kyng of the Persians.
6 And the children of Israel, the priestes and the Leuites, and other that were of the captiuitie, that had any charge, dyd accordyng to the thynges written in the booke of Moyses.
7 And to the dedication of the temple of the Lorde, they offered an hundred * 1.1 oxen, two hundred rammes, foure hun∣dred lambes,
8 And twelue goates, for the sinnes of all [the people of] Israel, after the number of the chiefe of the tribes of Israel.
9 The priestes also and the Leuites [unspec B] stoode arayed in their long robes after their kinredes in all the workes of the Lorde God of Israel, accordyng to the booke of Moyses, and the porters at euery doore.
10 And the children of Israel, with those that were come out of captiuitie, helde the Passouer the fourteenth day of the first moneth, after that ye priestes and the Leuites were sanctified.
11 They that were of the captiuitie were not all sanctified together: but the Le∣uites were all sanctified together.
12 And so they offered the Passouer for all them of the captiuitie, and for their brethren the priestes, & for them selues.
13 And the children of Israel that came out of captiuitie dyd eate, all they that had separated them selues from the ab∣hominations of the people of the lande, and sought the Lorde,
14 And they kept the feast of the vnleaue∣ned bread seuen dayes long, makyng mery before the Lorde,
15 That the Lorde had turned the coun∣sayle of the kyng of Assyria towardes them, to strengthen their handes vnto the workes of the Lord God of Israel.