New English Translation

Ezra 8:26-29 New English Translation (NET)

26. I weighed out to them 650 talents of silver, silver vessels worth 100 talents, 100 talents of gold,

27. 20 gold bowls worth 1,000 darics, and two exquisite vessels of gleaming bronze, as valuable as gold.

28. Then I said to them, “You are holy to the Lord, just as these vessels are holy. The silver and the gold are a voluntary offering to the Lord, the God of your fathers.

29. Be careful with them and protect them, until you weigh them out before the leading priests and the Levites and the family leaders of Israel in Jerusalem, in the storerooms of the temple of the Lord.”