Ezra 6:4-6

Easy-to-Read Version

⁴ Its wall will be in layers that have three rows of large stones^[a] and one row of wooden timbers. The cost of building the Temple must be paid for from the king’s treasury. ⁵ Also, the gold and silver things from God’s Temple must be put back in their places. Nebuchadnezzar took them from the Temple in Jerusalem and brought them to Babylon. They must be put back in God’s Temple.

⁶ So King Darius sent this message to his officials:

To Tattenai, governor of the area west of the Euphrates River, to Shethar Bozenai, and to all the officials living in that province. I order you to stay away from Jerusalem.