1 Esdras 8:16-18

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

¹⁶ Whatever you and your kindred are minded to do with the gold and silver, perform it in accordance with the will of your God; ¹⁷ deliver the holy vessels of the Lord that are given to you for the use of the temple of your God that is in Jerusalem. ¹⁸ And whatever else occurs to you as necessary for the temple of your God, you may provide out of the royal treasury.