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Ezra 3:6

From the first day of the seventh month they began to give burnt gifts to the Lord. But the house of the Lord had not begun to be built.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Altar;   Daily Offering;   Ethanim;   Liberality;   Month;   Priest;   Temple;   Zerubbabel;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Temple, the Second;  

Dictionaries:

- Easton Bible Dictionary - Altar;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Ezra, the Book of;   Jerusalem;   Tatnai;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Ezra, Book of;   Festivals;   Jeshua;   Sacrifice and Offering;   Zechariah, Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Priests and Levites;   Shealtiel;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Paradise;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Babylonish Captivity, the;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Atonement, Day of;   Kitto Biblical Cyclopedia - Altar;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Festivals;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
On the first day of the seventh month they began to offer burnt offerings to the Lord, even though the foundation of the Lord’s temple had not yet been laid.
Hebrew Names Version
From the first day of the seventh month began they to offer burnt offerings to the LORD: but the foundation of the temple of the LORD was not yet laid.
King James Version
From the first day of the seventh month began they to offer burnt offerings unto the Lord . But the foundation of the temple of the Lord was not yet laid.
English Standard Version
From the first day of the seventh month they began to offer burnt offerings to the Lord . But the foundation of the temple of the Lord was not yet laid.
New Century Version
On the first day of the seventh month they began to bring burnt offerings to the Lord , but the foundation of the Lord 's Temple had not yet been laid.
New English Translation
From the first day of the seventh month they began to offer burnt offerings to the Lord . However, the Lord 's temple was not at that time established.
Amplified Bible
From the first day of the seventh month they began to offer burnt offerings to the LORD, but the foundation of the temple of the LORD had not been laid.
New American Standard Bible
From the first day of the seventh month they began to offer burnt offerings to the LORD, but the foundation of the temple of the LORD had not been laid.
World English Bible
From the first day of the seventh month began they to offer burnt offerings to Yahweh: but the foundation of the temple of Yahweh was not yet laid.
Geneva Bible (1587)
From the first day of the seuenth moneth began they to offer burnt offrings vnto the Lord: but the foundation of the Temple of the Lorde was not layed.
Legacy Standard Bible
From the first day of the seventh month they began to offer burnt offerings to Yahweh, but the foundation of the temple of Yahweh had not been laid.
Berean Standard Bible
On the first day of the seventh month, the Israelites began to offer burnt offerings to the LORD, although the foundation of the temple of the LORD had not been laid.
Contemporary English Version
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.
Complete Jewish Bible
From the first day of the seventh month, they began offering burnt offerings to Adonai , even though the foundation of Adonai 's temple had not yet been laid.
Darby Translation
From the first day of the seventh month they began to offer up burnt-offerings to Jehovah. But the foundation of the temple of Jehovah was not [yet] laid.
Easy-to-Read Version
So on the first day of the seventh month, these Israelites again began offering sacrifices to the Lord . This was done, even though the Lord 's Temple had not been rebuilt.
George Lamsa Translation
From the first day of the seventh month they began to offer burnt offerings to the LORD. But the foundation of the temple of the LORD was not yet laid.
Good News Translation
Although the people had not yet started to rebuild the Temple, they began on the first day of the seventh month to burn sacrifices to the Lord .
Lexham English Bible
From the first day of the seventh month they began to offer burnt offerings to Yahweh. But the temple of Yahweh was not yet founded.
Literal Translation
From the first day of the seventh month they began to offer burnt offerings to Jehovah. But the foundation of the temple of Jehovah was not laid.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Vpon the first daye of the seuenth moneth beganne they to offre burnt sacrifices vnto the LORDE. But the foundacion of the teple of the LORDE was not yet layed.
American Standard Version
From the first day of the seventh month began they to offer burnt-offerings unto Jehovah: but the foundation of the temple of Jehovah was not yet laid.
Bible in Basic English
From the first day of the seventh month they made a start with the burned offerings, but the base of the Temple of the Lord had still not been put in its place.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
From the first day of the seuenth moneth, began they to offer burnt sacrifices vnto the Lord: euen when the foundation of the temple of the Lorde was not yet layde.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
From the first day of the seventh month began they to offer burnt-offerings unto the LORD; but the foundation of the temple of the LORD was not yet laid.
King James Version (1611)
From the first day of the seuenth moneth, began they to offer burnt offerings vnto the Lord: but the foundation of the temple of the Lord was not yet laid.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
On the first day of the seventh month they began to offer whole-burnt-offerings to the Lord: but the foundation of the house of the Lord was not laid.
English Revised Version
From the first day of the seventh month began they to offer burnt offerings unto the LORD: but the foundation of the temple of the LORD was not yet laid.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
In the firste dai of the seuenthe monethe thei bigunnen to offre brent sacrifice to the Lord; certis the temple of God was not foundid yit.
Update Bible Version
From the first day of the seventh month they began to offer burnt-offerings to Yahweh: but the foundation of the temple of Yahweh was not yet laid.
Webster's Bible Translation
From the first day of the seventh month they began to offer burnt-offerings to the LORD. But the foundation of the temple of the LORD was not [yet] laid.
New King James Version
From the first day of the seventh month they began to offer burnt offerings to the LORD, although the foundation of the temple of the LORD had not been laid.
New Living Translation
Fifteen days before the Festival of Shelters began, the priests had begun to sacrifice burnt offerings to the Lord . This was even before they had started to lay the foundation of the Lord 's Temple.
New Revised Standard
From the first day of the seventh month they began to offer burnt offerings to the Lord . But the foundation of the temple of the Lord was not yet laid.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
From the first day of the seventh month, began they to offer up ascending-sacrifices unto Yahweh, - but, the temple of Yahweh, had not had its foundation laid.
Douay-Rheims Bible
From the first day of the seventh month they began to offer holocausts to the Lord: but the temple of God was not yet founded.
Revised Standard Version
From the first day of the seventh month they began to offer burnt offerings to the LORD. But the foundation of the temple of the LORD was not yet laid.
Young's Literal Translation
From the first day of the seventh month they have begun to cause burnt-offerings to ascend to Jehovah, and the temple of Jehovah hath not been founded,
THE MESSAGE
They began offering Whole-Burnt-Offerings to God from the very first day of the seventh month, even though The Temple of God 's foundation had not yet been laid.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
From the first day of the seventh month they began to offer burnt offerings to the LORD, but the foundation of the temple of the LORD had not been laid.

Contextual Overview

1 When the seventh month came, and the sons of Israel were in the cities, the people gathered together as one man in Jerusalem. 2 Then Jozadak's son Jeshua and his brothers the religious leaders, and Shealtiel's son Zerubbabel and his brothers, built the altar of the God of Israel, to give burnt gifts on it. They did this as it is written in the Law of Moses, the man of God. 3 So they set up the altar in its place, for they were afraid because of the peoples of the lands. On it they gave burnt gifts in worship to the Lord morning and evening. 4 They kept the Special Supper of Tents, as it is written. They gave the right number of burnt gifts every day by the Law, as was needed for each day. 5 After that they gave the gifts to be burned day and night and for the new moons, and for all the special times of the Lord, and the gifts from every one who brought a free-will gift to the Lord. 6 From the first day of the seventh month they began to give burnt gifts to the Lord. But the house of the Lord had not begun to be built. 7 So they gave money to the men who worked with stone and wood. They gave food, drink and oil to the Sidonians and Tyrians so the cedar wood could be brought from Lebanon to the sea at Joppa, as King Cyrus of Persia had allowed them.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the foundation of the temple of the Lord was not yet laid: Heb. the temple of the Lord was not yet founded.

Reciprocal: Leviticus 23:24 - In the seventh Numbers 29:1 - the seventh

Cross-References

Genesis 3:1
Now the snake was more able to fool others than any animal of the field which the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, "Did God say that you should not eat from any tree in the garden?"
Genesis 3:2
Then the woman said to the snake, "We may eat the fruit of the trees of the garden.
Genesis 3:12
The man said, "The woman whom You gave to be with me, she gave me fruit of the tree, and I ate."
Genesis 3:14
Then the Lord God said to the snake, "Because you have done this, you will be hated and will suffer more than all cattle, and more than every animal of the field. You will go on your stomach and you will eat dust all the days of your life.
Genesis 3:15
And I will make you and the woman hate each other, and your seed and her seed will hate each other. He will crush your head, and you will crush his heel."
Genesis 3:17
Then He said to Adam, "Because you have listened to the voice of your wife, and have eaten from the tree of which I told you, "Do not eat from it," the ground is cursed because of you. By hard work you will eat food from it all the days of your life.
Genesis 3:19
You will eat bread by the sweat of your face because of hard work, until you return to the ground, because you were taken from the ground. You are dust, and you will return to dust."
Genesis 6:2
the sons of God saw that the daughters of men were beautiful. And they took wives for themselves, whomever they chose.
Genesis 39:7
The time came when his boss's wife saw him, and she said, "Lie with me."
Joshua 7:21
I saw among what was left of the city a beautiful coat from Shinar. I saw 200 pieces of silver, and a large piece of gold as heavy as fifty pieces of silver. I had a desire for them and took them. See, they are hidden in the ground inside my tent, with the silver under it."

Gill's Notes on the Bible

From the first of the seventh month began they to offer burnt offerings unto the Lord,.... And which day was not only a new moon, but a grand festival, the feast of blowing of trumpets,

Leviticus 23:24, and no doubt but they observed the tenth day of this month, with all the rites of it, which was the day of atonement,

Leviticus 23:27,

but the foundation of the temple of the Lord was not yet laid; they began first with sacrifices, that having thereby given thanks to God for their return to their own land, and for all the benefits they enjoyed, and made atonement for their sins in a typical way, they might be the more prepared and fit for the work of building the temple; or, "though the foundation" of it was not laid z, yet they offered the above sacrifices.

z Etsi, Michaelis.


 
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