Ezra 6:2-4

English Standard Version

² And in Ecbatana, the citadel that is ^(A)in the province of Media, a scroll was found on which this was written: “A record. ³ In the first year of Cyrus the king, Cyrus the king issued a decree: Concerning the house of God at Jerusalem, let the house be rebuilt, the place where sacrifices were offered, and let its foundations be retained. Its height shall be sixty cubits^[a] and its breadth sixty cubits, ^4 (B)with three layers of great stones and one layer of timber. Let the cost be paid from the royal treasury.