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|Esdras 8:21|
There, by the Ahava Canal, I proclaimed a fast, so that we might humble ourselves before our God and ask him for a safe journey for us and our children, with all our possessions.
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|Esdras 8:22|
I was ashamed to ask the king for soldiers and horsemen to protect us from enemies on the road, because we had told the king, “The gracious hand of our God is on everyone who looks to him, but his great anger is against all who forsake him.”
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|Esdras 8:23|
So we fasted and petitioned our God about this, and he answered our prayer.
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|Esdras 8:24|
Then I set apart twelve of the leading priests, together with Sherebiah, Hashabiah and ten of their brothers,
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|Esdras 8:25|
and I weighed out to them the offering of silver and gold and the articles that the king, his advisers, his officials and all Israel present there had donated for the house of our God.
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|Esdras 8:26|
I weighed out to them 650 talents [That is, about 22 tons (about 22 metric tons)] of silver, silver articles weighing 100 talents, [That is, about 3 1/3 tons (about 3.4 metric tons)] 100 talents [That is, about 3 1/3 tons (about 3.4 metric tons)] of gold,
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|Esdras 8:27|
20 bowls of gold valued at 1,000 darics, [That is, about 19 pounds (about 8.5 kilograms)] and two fine articles of polished bronze, as precious as gold.
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|Esdras 8:28|
I said to them, “You as well as these articles are consecrated to the LORD. The silver and gold are a freewill offering to the LORD, the God of your fathers.
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|Esdras 8:29|
Guard them carefully until you weigh them out in the chambers of the house of the LORD in Jerusalem before the leading priests and the Levites and the family heads of Israel.”
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|Esdras 8:30|
Then the priests and Levites received the silver and gold and sacred articles that had been weighed out to be taken to the house of our God in Jerusalem.
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