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Watch and keep
them until you weigh
them before the princes of the priests and the Levites and of the princes of the fathers of Israel in Jerusalem, in the chambers of the house of the LORD.
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The priests and the Levites received the weight of the silver and of the gold and of the vessels, to bring
them to Jerusalem unto the house of our God.
31
And we departed from the river of Ahava on the twelfth of the first month to go to Jerusalem; and the hand of our God was upon us, and he delivered us from the hand of the enemy and of such as lay in wait by the way.
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And we came to Jerusalem and abode there three days.
33
Now on the fourth day the silver and the gold and the vessels were weighed in the house of our God by the hand of Meremoth, the son of Uriah, the priest; and with him
was Eleazar, the son of Phinehas; and with them
was Jozabad, the son of Jeshua, and Noadiah, the son of Binnui, Levites;
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by number
and by weight of each one; and all the weight was written at that time.
35
Those that had been carried away, the sons of the captivity, offered burnt offerings unto the God of Israel, twelve bullocks for all Israel, ninety-six rams, seventy-seven lambs, twelve he goats
as sin; all
this was a burnt offering unto the LORD.
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And they delivered the king’s commissions unto the king’s lieutenants and captains of the other side the river, which favoured the people and the house of God.