1. In the four and twentieth day of the month, in the sixth month, in the second year of Darius the king, they began.
2. And in the seventh month, the word of the Lord came by the hand of Aggeus the prophet, saying:
3. Speak to Zorobabel the son of Salathiel the governor of Juda, and to Jesus the son of Josedec the high priest, and to the rest of the people, saying: