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Ezra 8:24-31 Good News Bible (GNB)

24. From among the leading priests I chose Sherebiah, Hashabiah, and ten others.

25. Then I weighed out the silver, the gold, and the utensils which the emperor, his advisers and officials, and the people of Israel had given to be used in the Temple, and I gave it to the priests.

26-27. This is what I gave them:silver — 22 tonnes100 silver utensils — seventy kilogrammesgold — 3.4 tonnestwenty gold bowls — 8.4 kilogrammestwo fine bronze bowls, equal in value to gold bowls

28. I said to them, “You are sacred to the Lord, the God of your ancestors, and so are all the silver and gold utensils brought to him as freewill offerings.

29. Guard them carefully until you reach the Temple. There in the priests' room weigh them and hand them over to the leaders of the priests and of the Levites, and to the leaders of the people of Israel in Jerusalem.”

30. So the priests and the Levites took charge of the silver, the gold, and the utensils, to take them to the Temple in Jerusalem.

31. It was on the twelfth day of the first month that we left the Ahava Canal to go to Jerusalem. Our God was with us and protected us from enemy attacks and from ambush as we travelled.