But they gave that to the workmen, and repaired therewith the house of the Lord. ] They took care that the workmen should first be paid for the repairs of the temple.
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and to masons, and hewers of stone, and to buy timber and hewn stone to repair the breaches of the house of Jehovah, and for all that had to be laid out on the house for repairs.
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However there were not made for the house of Jehovah basons of silver, knives, bowls, trumpets, nor any utensil of gold or utensil of silver, of the money that was brought [into] the house of Jehovah;
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but they gave that to the workmen, and repaired the house of Jehovah with it.
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And they did not reckon with the men into whose hand they gave the money to be bestowed on workmen; for they dealt faithfully.
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The money of trespass-offerings, and the money of sin-offerings, was not brought into the house of Jehovah: it was for the priests.