4:46. And they laid up the stones in the mountain of the temple, in a convenient place, till there should come a prophet, and give answer concerning them.
4:47. Then they took whole stones, according to the law and built a new altar, according to the former:
4:48. And they built up the holy places, and the things that were within the temple: and they sanctified the temple and the courts.
4:49. And they made new holy vessels, and brought in the candlestick, and the altar of incense, and the table, into the temple.
4:50. And they put incense upon the altar, and lighted up the lamps that were upon the candlestick, and they gave light in the temple.
4:51. And they set the loaves upon the table, and hung up the veils, and finished all the works that they had begun to make.
4:52. And they arose before the morning on the five and twentieth day of the ninth month, (which is the month of Casleu) in the hundred and forty-eighth year.
4:53. And they offered sacrifice, according to the law, upon the new altar of holocausts which they had made.
4:54. According to the time, and according to the day wherein the heathens had defiled it, in the same was it dedicated anew with canticles, and harps, and lutes, and cymbals.
4:55. And all the people fell upon their faces, and adored, and blessed up to heaven, him that had prospered them.