1 Esdras 8:59-61
Revised Standard Version
59 Be watchful and on guard until you deliver them to the leaders of the priests and the Levites, and to the heads of the fathers’ houses of Israel, in Jerusalem, in the chambers of the house of our Lord.” 60 So the priests and the Levites who took the silver and the gold and the vessels which had been in Jerusalem carried them to the temple of the Lord.
The Return to Jerusalem
61 We departed from the river Theras on the twelfth day of the first month; and we arrived in Jerusalem by the mighty hand of our Lord which was upon us; he delivered us from every enemy on the way, and so we came to Jerusalem.
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