1When the seventh month arrived, the sons of Israel were in the cities, and the people gathered as one man to Jerusalem.2Then Jeshua son of Jozadak and his brothers the priests, together with Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel and his brothers, arose and built the altar of the God of Israel to offer burnt offerings on it, as it is written in the instruction of Moses the man of God.3They set the altar on its bases because terror from the peoples of the lands had come upon them, and they offered burnt offerings on it to the LORD—burnt offerings morning and evening.4They kept the feast of the booths as it is written, and offered the burnt offering of each day on its day according to the number, according to the regulation of each day.5And after that came the continual burnt offering, and the offerings for the months, and for all the appointed festivals of the LORD that are consecrated, and for every freewill offering that anyone willingly brought to the LORD.6From the first day of the seventh month they began to offer burnt offerings to the LORD, but the temple of the LORD had not been founded.