Ezr 1 | NASB2020 | STEP | Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia , in order to fulfill the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremiah , the Lord stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia , so that he sent a proclamation throughout his kingdom , and also put it in writing , saying :

Ezra 1

Cyrus’ Proclamation

1 ^aNow in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, in order to fulfill the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremiah, the Lord stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, so that he ^bsent a proclamation throughout his kingdom, and also put it in writing, saying:

2 “This is what Cyrus king of Persia says: ‘The Lord, the God of heaven, has given me all the kingdoms of the earth, and ^cHe has appointed me to rebuild for Him a house in Jerusalem, which is in Judah. 3 Whoever there is among you of all His people, may his God be with him! ^{▼▼Lit he is to go up}Go up to Jerusalem which is in Judah and rebuild the house of the Lord, the God of Israel; ^eHe is the God who is in Jerusalem. 4 And every survivor, at whatever place he may ^{▼▼Or reside as a stranger}live, the people of ^{▼▼Lit his}that place are to support him with silver and gold, with equipment and cattle, together with a ^{▼▼Or freewill offering}voluntary offering for the house of God which is in Jerusalem.’”

Holy Vessels Restored

5 Then the heads of fathers’ households of Judah and Benjamin and the priests and the Levites rose up, ⁱeveryone whose spirit God had stirred to go up to rebuild the house of the Lord which is in Jerusalem. 6 And all of those around them ^{▼▼Lit strengthened their hands
,} ^kencouraged them with articles of silver, with gold, with equipment, cattle, and with valuables, aside from everything that was given as a ^{▼▼Or freewill offering}voluntary offering. 7 ^mAlso King Cyrus brought out the articles of the house of the Lord, ⁿwhich Nebuchadnezzar had carried away from Jerusalem and put in the house of his gods; 8 and Cyrus, king of Persia, had them brought out by the hand of Mithredath the treasurer, and he counted them out to ^oSheshbazzar, the leader of Judah. 9 Now this was their number: thirty ^pgold dishes, a thousand silver dishes, twenty nine ^{▼▼Heb obscure; other possible meanings are knives, censers}duplicates; 10 thirty gold bowls, 410 silver bowls of a second kind, and a thousand other articles. 11 All the articles of gold and silver totaled 5,400. Sheshbazzar brought them all up with the exiles who went up from Babylon to Jerusalem.