Ezra 7:14-22
14For you are sent by the king aand his seven counselors to make inquiries about Judah and Jerusalem according to the Law of your God, which is in your hand, 15and also to carry the silver and gold that the king band his counselors have freely offered to the God of Israel, cwhose dwelling is in Jerusalem, 16 dwith all the silver and gold that you shall find in the whole province of Babylonia, and ewith the freewill offerings of the people and the priests, vowed willingly for the house of their God that is in Jerusalem. 17With this money, then, you shall with all diligence buy bulls, rams, and lambs, with their grain offerings and their drink offerings, and fyou shall offer them on the altar of the house of your God that is in Jerusalem. 18Whatever 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. 19The vessels that have been given you for the service of the house of your God, you shall deliver before the God of Jerusalem. 20And 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, 22up to 100 talents ▼
▼A talent was about 75 pounds or 34 kilograms
of silver, 100 cors ▼▼A cor was about 6 bushels or 220 liters
of wheat, 100 baths ▼▼A bath was about 6 gallons or 22 liters
of wine, 100 baths of oil, and salt without prescribing how much.
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