on the twenty-fourth day of the sixth month in the second year of King Darius.

On [the] twenty-fourth [day] of the ninth [month], in the second year of Darius, the word of Yahweh came to the prophet Haggai, saying,

And the word of Yahweh came to Haggai a second time on the twenty-fourth [day] of the month saying,

{from that time when} one came to a heap of twenty [measures], there were [only] ten, and [when] one came to the wine vat to draw out fifty measures, there were [only] twenty.

In the seventh [month] on the twenty-first day, the word of Yahweh {came through} Haggai the prophet, saying,

'{Please consider} from this day forward, from the twenty-fourth day of the ninth [month], from the day that the foundation of Yahweh's temple was laid, {consider}: