17. Make sure you use the money to buy bulls, rams and male lambs. Also buy their grain offerings and drink offerings. Then sacrifice them on the altar of the temple of your God in Jerusalem.
18. You and the other Jews can do what you think is best with the rest of the silver and gold. Do what your God wants you to do.
19. Give to the God of Jerusalem all of the articles you are accountable for. Use them for worshiping your God in his temple.
20. You might need to supply some other things for the temple of your God. If you do, take them from among the royal treasures.
21. I, King Artaxerxes, also give this order. It applies to all those who are in charge of the treasures west of the Euphrates River. Make sure you provide anything the priest Ezra might ask you to give. He is a teacher of the Law of the God of heaven.