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Ezra 8 📜 📕 ↷
25 And I weighed unto them the silver and gold, and the consecrated vessels of the house of our God, which the king had offered and his counsellers, and his Princes, and all Israel of them that were found:📜💬📚
26 and I weighed in their hands of silver six hundred fifty talents, and vessels of silver an hundred, of gold an hundred talents:📜💬📚
27 and cups of gold twenty, which had a thousand solids, and two vessels of the best shining brass, fair as gold.📜💬📚
28 And I said to them: You are the holy of our Lord, and the vessels are holy, and the silver and gold, that is voluntarily offered to our Lord the God of our fathers:📜💬📚
29 Watch & keep it, until you deliver it by weight before the Princes of the Priests, and of the Levites, & the Princes of the families of Israel in Jerusalem, into the treasure of the house of our Lord.📜💬📚
30 And the Priests and the Levites received the weight of the silver and gold, and of the vessels, to carry it to Jerusalem into the house of our God.📜💬📚
31 We therefore did set forward from the river of Ahava the twelfth day of the first month to go on to Jerusalem: and the hand of our God was upon us, & delivered us from the hand of the enemy, and the lier in wait by the way.📜💬📚
Arrival in Jerusalem
32 And we came to Jerusalem, and we tarried there three days.📜💬📚
33 And in the fourth day the silver was weighed, and the gold, and the vessels in the house of our God by the hand of Meremoth the son of Urias the Priest, and with him Eleazar the son of Phinees, and with them Jozabed the son of Josue, and Noadaia the son of Bennoi, Levites,📜💬📚
34 according to the number and weight of all: and all the weight was described at that time.📜💬📚
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