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|Esdras 8:21|
Then I gave orders for a time of going without food, there by the river Ahava, so that we might make ourselves low before our God in prayer, requesting from him a straight way for us and for our little ones and for all our substance.
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|Esdras 8:22|
For I would not, for shame, make request to the king for a band of armed men and horsemen to give us help against those who might make attacks on us on the way: for we had said to the king, The hand of our God is on his servants for good, but his power and his wrath are against all those who are turned away from him.
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23
|Esdras 8:23|
So we went without food, requesting our God for this: and his ear was open to our prayer.
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24
|Esdras 8:24|
So I put on one side twelve of the chiefs of the priests, Sherebiah, Hashabiah, and ten of their brothers with them,
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25
|Esdras 8:25|
And gave to them by weight the silver and the gold and the vessels, all the offering for the house of our God which the king and his wise men and his captains and all Israel there present had given:
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26
|Esdras 8:26|
Measuring into their hands six hundred and fifty talents of silver, and silver vessels, a hundred talents' weight, and a hundred talents of gold,
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27
|Esdras 8:27|
And twenty gold basins, of a thousand darics, and two vessels of the best bright brass, equal in value to gold.
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28
|Esdras 8:28|
And I said to them, You are holy to the Lord and the vessels are holy: and the silver and the gold are an offering freely given to the Lord, the God of your fathers.
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29
|Esdras 8:29|
Take care of them and keep them, till you put them on the scales before the chiefs of the priests and the Levites and the chiefs of the families of Israel, in Jerusalem, in the rooms of the house of the Lord.
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|Esdras 8:30|
So the priests and the Levites took the weight of silver and gold and the vessels, to take them to Jerusalem into the house of our God.
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