9 So we questioned the elders and asked, “Who authorized you to rebuild this temple and restore this structure?”
Ezra 5:9
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Ezra 5:2–4
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1 Esdras 6:21–23
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1 Esdras 5:69–71
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Ezra 4:1–2
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