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  "schemaVersion": 1,
  "kind": "event",
  "id": "returned-altar",
  "era": "exile-return",
  "order": 238,
  "title": "Worship resumes before the temple is rebuilt",
  "group": "temple-return",
  "date": {
    "kind": "relative",
    "label": "First return · Seventh month · Before the temple foundation"
  },
  "pin": [
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    31.776667
  ],
  "pinConfidence": "Identified site",
  "pinPlace": "openbible-a15257a",
  "summary": "In the seventh month the people gather in Jerusalem. Jeshua and Zerubbabel rebuild the altar and begin the prescribed offerings despite fear of neighboring peoples. They celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles and arrange supplies for rebuilding, though the temple foundation has not yet been laid.",
  "context": "The altar, the temple foundation and the later walls are distinct stages. Worship begins amid insecurity and incomplete construction. Jeshua here is the high priest also called Joshua in Haggai, not Joshua son of Nun from the conquest period.",
  "question": "What can the community begin doing before every part of its restoration is complete?",
  "locationNote": "Jerusalem is an identified city. The marker locates the city, not a precisely verified house, gate, platform or section of ancient wall.",
  "passages": [
    {
      "reference": "Ezra 3:1–7",
      "range": [
        15003001,
        15003007
      ],
      "translation": "bsb",
      "url": "https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ezra%203%3A1%E2%80%937&version=BSB",
      "availability": "bundled",
      "verses": [
        {
          "book": "Ezra",
          "chapter": 3,
          "verse": 1,
          "text": "By the seventh month, the Israelites had settled in their towns, and the people assembled as one man in Jerusalem."
        },
        {
          "book": "Ezra",
          "chapter": 3,
          "verse": 2,
          "text": "Then Jeshua son of Jozadak and his fellow priests, along with Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel and his associates, began to build the altar of the God of Israel to sacrifice burnt offerings on it, as it is written in the Law of Moses the man of God."
        },
        {
          "book": "Ezra",
          "chapter": 3,
          "verse": 3,
          "text": "They set up the altar on its foundation and sacrificed burnt offerings on it to the LORD—both the morning and evening burnt offerings—even though they feared the people of the land."
        },
        {
          "book": "Ezra",
          "chapter": 3,
          "verse": 4,
          "text": "They also celebrated the Feast of Tabernacles in accordance with what is written, and they offered burnt offerings daily based on the number prescribed for each day."
        },
        {
          "book": "Ezra",
          "chapter": 3,
          "verse": 5,
          "text": "After that, they presented the regular burnt offerings and those for New Moons and for all the appointed sacred feasts of the LORD, as well as all the freewill offerings brought to the LORD."
        },
        {
          "book": "Ezra",
          "chapter": 3,
          "verse": 6,
          "text": "On the first day of the seventh month, the Israelites began to offer burnt offerings to the LORD, although the foundation of the temple of the LORD had not been laid."
        },
        {
          "book": "Ezra",
          "chapter": 3,
          "verse": 7,
          "text": "They gave money to the masons and carpenters, and food and drink and oil to the people of Sidon and Tyre to bring cedar logs from Lebanon to Joppa by sea, as authorized by Cyrus king of Persia."
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "related": [
    {
      "range": [
        5016013,
        5016015
      ],
      "kind": "teaching",
      "note": "Moses gives instructions for celebrating the Feast of Tabernacles.",
      "reference": "Deuteronomy 16:13–15",
      "translation": "bsb",
      "url": "https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Deuteronomy%2016%3A13%E2%80%9315&version=BSB"
    }
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  "places": [
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      "name": "Jerusalem",
      "coordinate": [
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      "kind": "City",
      "confidence": "Identified site",
      "confidenceSource": "editorial",
      "sources": [
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          "label": "OpenBible.info: Jerusalem (CC BY 4.0)",
          "url": "https://www.openbible.info/geo/ancient/a15257a/jerusalem"
        }
      ]
    }
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  "mapPeriod": "persian-judah",
  "further": [
    {
      "label": "OpenBible.info: Jerusalem (CC BY 4.0)",
      "url": "https://www.openbible.info/geo/ancient/a15257a/jerusalem"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "sources": [
      {
        "name": "editorial",
        "ref": "content/authored/exile-return.json"
      }
    ],
    "review": "draft"
  },
  "eraName": "Exile & Return",
  "interactiveUrl": "https://wilderness-scripture-atlas.pages.dev/?event=returned-altar",
  "attribution": [
    "Place coordinates from OpenBible.info Bible Geocoding Data, CC BY 4.0.",
    "Teaching stops, summaries and regional extents are original editorial content of this atlas.",
    "Berean Standard Bible (BSB), public domain. https://berean.bible/licensing.htm"
  ],
  "translation": "bsb",
  "url": "https://wilderness-scripture-atlas.pages.dev/reference/events/returned-altar/",
  "markdownUrl": "https://wilderness-scripture-atlas.pages.dev/reference/events/returned-altar/index.md",
  "jsonUrl": "https://wilderness-scripture-atlas.pages.dev/reference/events/returned-altar/index.json",
  "cautions": "Narrative order is a reading arrangement, not a proven chronology. Dates retain their stated uncertainty. An identified locality does not establish the exact venue or prove an event. Region extents and routes are illustrative, not surveyed boundaries or ancient roads. Draft material has not completed editorial review.",
  "revision": "0063c9091d32b409"
}