In the second year of Darius the king, in the sixth month, in the first day of the month, came the word of YY by Haggai the prophet unto Zrubavel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Yhudah, and to Y'howshu`a the son of Josedech, kohen hagadol, saying,
Consider now from this day and upward, from the four and twentieth day of the ninth month, even from the day that the foundation of YY 's temple was laid, consider it.