Moreover, (A)I make a decree regarding what you shall do for these elders of the Jews for the rebuilding of this house of God. The cost is to be paid to these men in full and without delay from the royal revenue, the tribute of the province from Beyond the River.

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(A)with three layers of great stones and one layer of timber. Let the cost be paid from the royal treasury.

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(A)The silver is mine, and the gold is mine, declares the Lord of hosts.

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15 and also to carry the silver and gold that the king (A)and his counselors have freely offered to the God of Israel, (B)whose dwelling is in Jerusalem, 16 (C)with all the silver and gold that you shall find in the whole province of Babylonia, and (D)with the freewill offerings of the people and the priests, vowed willingly for the house of their God that is in Jerusalem. 17 With this money, then, you shall with all diligence buy bulls, rams, and lambs, with their grain offerings and their drink offerings, and (E)you shall offer them on the altar of the house of your God that is in Jerusalem. 18 Whatever seems good to you and your brothers to do with the rest of the silver and gold, you may do, according to the will of your God. 19 The vessels that have been given you for the service of the house of your God, you shall deliver before the God of Jerusalem. 20 And whatever else is required for the house of your God, which it falls to you to provide, you may provide it out of the king's treasury.

21 “And I, Artaxerxes the king, make a decree to all the treasurers in the province Beyond the River: Whatever Ezra the priest, the scribe of the Law of the God of heaven, requires of you, let it be done with all diligence, 22 up to 100 talents[a] of silver, 100 cors[b] of wheat, 100 baths[c] of wine, 100 baths of oil, and salt without prescribing how much.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezra 7:22 A talent was about 75 pounds or 34 kilograms
  2. Ezra 7:22 A cor was about 6 bushels or 220 liters
  3. Ezra 7:22 A bath was about 6 gallons or 22 liters

29 Because of your temple at Jerusalem
    kings shall (A)bear gifts to you.
30 Rebuke (B)the beasts that dwell among the reeds,
    the herd of (C)bulls with the calves of the peoples.
(D)Trample underfoot those who lust after tribute;
    scatter the peoples who delight in war.[a]
31 Nobles shall come from (E)Egypt;
    (F)Cush shall hasten to (G)stretch out her hands to God.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 68:30 The meaning of the Hebrew verse is uncertain

But (A)the eye of their God was on the elders of the Jews, and they did not stop them until the report should reach Darius and then an answer be returned by letter concerning it.

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23 Then, when the copy of King Artaxerxes' letter was read before Rehum and Shimshai the scribe and their associates, they went in haste to the Jews at Jerusalem and by force and power made them cease.

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20 And mighty kings have been over Jerusalem, (A)who ruled over the whole province Beyond the River, to whom (B)tribute, custom, and toll were paid. 21 Therefore make a decree that these men be made to cease, and that this city be not rebuilt, until a decree is made by me.

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16 We make known to the king that if this city is rebuilt and its walls finished, you will then have no possession in the province Beyond the River.”

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