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and by him they were given to Sheshbazzar, the governor of Judea.
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The number of these was: one thousand gold cups, one thousand silver cups, twenty-nine silver censers, thirty gold bowls, two thousand four hundred ten silver bowls, and one thousand other vessels.
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All the vessels were handed over, gold and silver, five thousand four hundred sixty-nine,
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and they were carried back by Sheshbazzar with the returning exiles from Babylon to Jerusalem.
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In the time of King Artaxerxes of the Persians, Bishlam, Mithridates, Tabeel, Rehum, Beltethmus, the scribe Shimshai, and the rest of their associates, living in Samaria and other places, wrote him the following letter, against those who were living in Judea and Jerusalem: