18. You and your kinsmen may do whatever seems best to you with the remainder of the silver and gold, as your God wills.
19. The vessels given to you for the service of the house of your God you are to deposit before the God of Jerusalem.
20. Whatever else you may be required to supply for the needs of the house of your God, you may draw from the royal treasury.
21. I, Artaxerxes the king, issue this decree to all the treasurers of West-of-Euphrates: Whatever Ezra the priest, scribe of the law of the God of heaven, requests of you, let it be done with all diligence,
22. within these limits: silver, one hundred talents; wheat, one hundred kors; wine, one hundred baths; oil, one hundred baths; salt, without limit.
23. Let everything that is decreed by the God of heaven be carried out exactly for the house of the God of heaven, that wrath may not come upon the realm of the king and his sons.