10. Whenever the chest became full, the court secretary and the high priest counted the money that had been brought to the lord’s Temple and put it into bags.
11. Then they gave the money to the construction supervisors, who used it to pay the people working on the lord’s Temple—the carpenters, the builders,
12. the masons, and the stonecutters. They also used the money to buy the timber and the finished stone needed for repairing the lord’s Temple, and they paid any other expenses related to the Temple’s restoration.
13. The money brought to the Temple was not used for making silver bowls, lamp snuffers, basins, trumpets, or other articles of gold or silver for the Temple of the lord.
14. It was paid to the workmen, who used it for the Temple repairs.
15. No accounting of this money was required from the construction supervisors, because they were honest and trustworthy men.
16. However, the money that was contributed for guilt offerings and sin offerings was not brought into the lord’s Temple. It was given to the priests for their own use.