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

On the twenty-fourth of the ninth month, in the second year of Darius, the word of the Lord came to Haggai the prophet, saying,

Then the word of the Lord came a second time to Haggai on the twenty-fourth day of the month, saying,

from that time when one came to a grain heap of twenty measures, there would be only ten; and when one came to the wine vat to draw fifty measures, there would be only twenty.

On the twenty-first of the seventh month, the word of the Lord came by Haggai the prophet saying,

‘Do consider from this day onward, from the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month; from the day when the temple of the Lord was founded, consider: