Ezra 3:6

From the first day of the seventh month&c. This statement taken in conjunction with Ezra 3:5 (-and afterward" &c.) can only mean, that the Jews began to offer burnt offerings on their altar on -the firstday of the month", when the altar was set up, but that the regular offering of the daily sacrifice was not begun till after the Feast of Tabernacles (15th to 22nd).

But the foundation&c. R.V. - but" &c.: no full-stop. The explanatory clause is added. The burnt offerings were regularly made on the altar, although there was no Temple building, nor Temple worship. Such a thing would have been almost incredible to the Jew of later centuries.