Ezra 8:24-30

Modern English Version

Temple Gifts

²⁴ Then I separated twelve of the presiding priests—Sherebiah and Hashabiah, along with ten of their brothers— ²⁵ and weighed out to them the silver, the gold, the vessels, as well as the contribution collected for the house of our God by the king, his counselors, his lords, in conjunction with what all Israel had offered. ²⁶ I weighed out into their hand six hundred and fifty talents^[a] of silver, silver articles worth one hundred talents,^[b] one hundred talents^[c] of gold, ²⁷ twenty gold bowls worth a thousand darics,^[d] and two vessels of fine shining bronze, precious as gold.

²⁸ I said to them, “You are holy to the Lord. The vessels are holy also. The silver and the gold are a freewill offering to the Lord God of your fathers. ²⁹ Watch and guard them until you weigh them before the presiding priests and Levites, and the presiding elders of Israel at Jerusalem, for the chambers of the house of the Lord.” ³⁰ So the priests and the Levites accepted the weighed-out silver and gold, along with the vessels, to bring them to Jerusalem to the house of our God.