Ezra 3:4-6

Contemporary English Version

^4 (A) The people followed the rules for celebrating the Festival of Shelters and offered the proper sacrifices each day. ^5 (B) They offered sacrifices to please the Lord,^[a] sacrifices at each New Moon Festival, and sacrifices at the rest of the Lord's festivals. Every offering the people had brought voluntarily was also presented to the Lord.

⁶ Although work on the temple itself had not yet begun, the people started offering sacrifices on the Lord's altar on the first day of the seventh month of that year.