Ezra 3:8

Now in the second year of their coming unto the house of Elohim at Jerusalem, in the second month, began Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and the remnant of their brethren the priests and the Levites, and all they that were come out of the captivity unto Jerusalem; and appointed the Levites, from twenty years old and upward, to set forward the work of the house of the Yahuah.

— The Restored Word Bible

Context

6 From the first day of the seventh month began they to offer burnt offerings unto the Yahuah. But the foundation of the temple of the Yahuah was not laid.

7 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.

8 Now in the second year of their coming unto the house of Elohim at Jerusalem, in the second month, began Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and the remnant of their brethren the priests and the Levites, and all they that were come out of the captivity unto Jerusalem; and appointed the Levites, from twenty years old and upward, to set forward the work of the house of the Yahuah.

9 Then stood Jeshua his sons and his brethren, Kadmiel and his sons, the sons of Judah, together, to set forward the workmen in the house of Elohim: the sons of Henadad, their sons and their brethren the Levites.

10 And when the builders laid the foundation of the temple of the Yahuah, they set the priests in their apparel with trumpets, and the Levites the sons of Asaph with cymbals, to praise the Yahuah, after the ordinance of David king of Israel.

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