1 Esdras 8:18-20

Common English Bible

¹⁸ Whatever else you think of that is needed in your God’s temple, pay for it out of the royal treasury.

¹⁹ I, King Artaxerxes, have commanded the treasurers of Syria and Phoenicia so that whatever Ezra the priest and reader of the Law of the Most High God sends for, they should give to him completely, up to 5,700 pounds of silver, ²⁰ up to one hundred kors^[a] of wheat, one hundred baths^[b] of wine, and a lot of salt.