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Ezra 7:18

Verse 18 of 28. The 7th of 10 chapters in Ezra, in History.

14Because you are sent by the king and his seven counselors to inquire concerning Judah and Jerusalem, according to the law of your God which is in your hand,

15and to carry the silver and gold, which the king and his counselors have freely offered to the God of Israel, whose habitation is in Jerusalem,

16and all the silver and gold that you will find in all the province of Babylon, with the free will offering of the people and of the priests, offering willingly for the house of their God which is in Jerusalem.

17Therefore you shall with all diligence buy with this money bulls, rams, and lambs with their meal offerings and their drink offerings, and shall offer them on the altar of the house of your God which is in Jerusalem.

18Whatever seems good to you and to your brothers to do with the rest of the silver and the gold, do that according to the will of your God.

19The vessels that are given to you for the service of the house of your God, deliver before the God of Jerusalem.

20Whatever more will be needed for the house of your God, which you may have occasion to give, give it out of the king’s treasure house.

21I, even I, Artaxerxes the king, make a decree to all the treasurers who are beyond the River, that whatever Ezra the priest, the scribe of the law of the God of heaven, requires of you, it shall be done with all diligence,

22up to one hundred talents of silver, and to one hundred cors of wheat, and to one hundred baths of wine, and to one hundred baths of oil, and salt without prescribing how much.

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World English Bible. Public domain. Set as prose throughout, including the poetry, because the text is published to us without its lines.