Discovery BoxEzra 3:7 
ContextPreparations for Rebuilding the Temple
3:7 So they provided money 1 for the masons and carpenters, and food, beverages, and olive oil for the people of Sidon 2 and Tyre, 3 so that they would bring cedar timber from Lebanon to the seaport 4 at Joppa, in accord with the edict of King Cyrus of Persia.
Ezra 10:6
Context10:6 Then Ezra got up from in front of the temple of God and went to the room of Jehohanan son of Eliashib. While he stayed 5 there, he did not eat food or drink water, for he was in mourning over the infidelity of the exiles.
1 tn Heb “silver.”
2 map For location see Map1 A1; JP3 F3; JP4 F3.
3 map For location see Map1 A2; Map2 G2; Map4 A1; JP3 F3; JP4 F3.
4 tn Heb “to the sea”
5 tc The translation reads וַיָּלֶן (vayyalen, “and he stayed”) rather than the reading וַיֵּלֶךְ (vayyelekh, “and he went”) of the MT. Cf. the LXX.
