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|Esdras 8:21|
Then I proclaimed a fast there, at the river Ahava, that we might humble ourselves before our God, to seek of him a straight way for us, and for our little ones, and for all our substance.
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22
|Esdras 8:22|
"For I was ashamed to ask of the king a band of soldiers and horsemen to help us against the enemy in the way, because we had spoken to the king, saying, "The hand of our God is on all those who seek him, for good; but his power and his wrath is against all those who forsake him."
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23
|Esdras 8:23|
So we fasted and begged our God for this: and he was entreated of us.
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24
|Esdras 8:24|
Then I set apart twelve of the chiefs of the priests, even Sherebiah, Hashabiah, and ten of their brothers with them,
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25
|Esdras 8:25|
and weighed to them the silver, and the gold, and the vessels, even the offering for the house of our God, which the king, and his counselors, and his princes, and all Israel there present, had offered:
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26
|Esdras 8:26|
"I weighed into their hand six hundred fifty talents of silver, and silver vessels one hundred talents; of gold one hundred talents;"
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27
|Esdras 8:27|
"and twenty bowls of gold, of one thousand darics; and two vessels of fine bright brass, precious as gold."
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28
|Esdras 8:28|
"I said to them, "You are holy to Yahweh, and the vessels are holy; and the silver and the gold are a freewill offering to Yahweh, the God of your fathers."
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|Esdras 8:29|
"Watch, and keep them, until you weigh them before the chiefs of the priests and the Levites, and the princes of the fathers' [houses] of Israel, at Jerusalem, in the rooms of the house of Yahweh."
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|Esdras 8:30|
So the priests and the Levites received the weight of the silver and the gold, and the vessels, to bring them to Jerusalem to the house of our God.
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