Ezra 8:23-25

English Standard Version Anglicised

²³ So we fasted and implored our God for this, and he listened to our entreaty.

Priests to Guard Offerings

²⁴ Then I set apart twelve of the leading priests: ^(A)Sherebiah, ^(B)Hashabiah, and ten of their kinsmen with them. ²⁵ And I weighed out to them the ^(C)silver and the gold and the vessels, the offering for the house of our God that the king and his ^(D)counsellors and his lords and all Israel there present had offered.