The Third Book of Esdras (Douay 1609-10; printed after the canonical books as non-canonical)
Chapter 7
The house of God is finished, 7. and dedicated, 10. the feast of Pasch is also celebrated seuen dayes with Azimes.
Then Sisennes the deputie of Coelesyria, and Phaenice, and Satrabuzanes, and their felowes, obeying those thinges which were decreed of Darius the king, (1 Esd 6: 13)
2 applied the sacred workes most diligently, working together with the ancientes of the Iewes, the princes of Syria.
3 And the sacred workes prospered, Aggeus & Zacharias the prophetes prophecying.
4 And they accomplished al thinges by the precept of our Lord the God of Israel, and by the counsel of Cyrus, & Darius, and Artaxerxes the king of the Persians.
5 And our house was a finishing vntil the three and twentith day of the moneth of Adar, the sixth yeare of Darius the king.
6 And the children of Israel, and the Priestes and Leuites, and the rest that were of the captiuitie, which were added did according to those thinges that are written in the booke of Moyses.
7 And they offered for the dedication of the temple of our Lord, oxen an hundred, rammes two hundred, lambes foure hundred.
8 And kiddes for the sinnes of al Israel, twelue, according to the number of the tribes of Israel.
9 And the Priestes and Leuites stood clothed with stoles by tribes, ouer al the workes of our Lord the God of Israel, according to the booke of Moyses, and the porters at euerie gate.
10 And the children of Israel, with them that were of the captiuitie celebrated the phase of the fourtenth moone of the first moneth, when the Priestes and Leuites were sanctified.
11 Al the children of the captiuitie were not sanctified together, because al the Leuites were sanctified together.
12 And al the children of the captiuitie immolated the phase, both for their brethren the Priestes, and for them selues.
13 And the children of Israel did eate, they that were of the captiuitie al that remayned apart from al the abominations of the nations of the land seeking our Lord.
14 And they celebrated the festiual day of Azymes seuen dayes feasting in the sight of our Lord.
15 Because he turned the counsel of the king of the Assirians toward them, to strengthen their handes to the workes of our Lord the God of Israel.