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20 The rest of the needs for the temple of your God that you may have to supply,[a] you may do so from the royal treasury.

21 “I, King Artaxerxes, hereby issue orders to all the treasurers of[b] Trans-Euphrates, that you precisely execute all that Ezra the priestly scribe of the law of the God of heaven may request of you— 22 up to 100 talents of silver, 100 cors of wheat, 100 baths of wine, 100 baths of olive oil,[c] and unlimited[d] salt.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezra 7:20 tn Aram “may fall to you to give.”
  2. Ezra 7:21 tn Aram “who are in.”
  3. Ezra 7:22 tc The translation reads מְשַׁח בַּתִּין (meshakh battin) rather than מְשַׁח בַּתִּין (battin meshakh) of the MT.
  4. Ezra 7:22 tn Aram “he did not write.”