2 And a scroll was found in the fortress of Ecbatana, in the province of Media, with the following written on it: Memorandum: 3 In the first year of King Cyrus, he issued a decree concerning the house of God in Jerusalem: Let the house be rebuilt as a place for offering sacrifices, and let its foundations be firmly laid. It is to be sixty cubits high and sixty cubits wide, 4 with three layers of cut stones and one of timbers. The costs are to be paid from the royal treasury.
Ezra 6:2–4
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