Chiasm
Ezra 3:1–7
Ezra 3:1–75 matched frames1 pivot
Read down to the center, where the pattern turns; then rise back out through its mirror.
- A 1 And when the seventh month was come, and the children of Israel were in the cities,
- B 1 the people gathered themselves together as one man to Jerusalem.
- C 2 Then stood up Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and his brethren the priests, and Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and his brethren, and builded the altar of the God of Israel, to offer burnt offerings there on,
- C' 4-5 and offered the daily burnt offerings by number, according to the custom, as the duty of every day required; And afterward offered the continual burnt offering, both of the new moons, and of all the set feasts of the LORD that were consecrated,
- B' 5 and of every one that willingly offered a freewill offering unto the LORD.
- B 1 the people gathered themselves together as one man to Jerusalem.
- A' 6-7 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. They gave money also unto the masons, and to the carpenters; and meat, and drink, and oil, unto them of Zidon, and to them of Tyre, to bring cedar trees from Lebanon to the sea of Joppa, according to the grant that they had of Cyrus king of Persia.
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