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"Thus says Cyrus king of the Persians: The Lord of Israel, the Lord Most High, has made me king of the world,
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and he has commanded me to build him a house at Jerusalem, which is in Judea.
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If any one of you, therefore, is of his people, may his Lord be with him, and let him go up to Jerusalem, which is in Judea, and build the house of the Lord of Israel -- he is the Lord who dwells in Jerusalem,
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and let each man, wherever he may live, be helped by the men of his place with gold and silver,
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with gifts and with horses and cattle, besides the other things added as votive offerings for the temple of the Lord which is in Jerusalem."
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Then arose the heads of families of the tribes of Judah and Benjamin, and the priests and the Levites, and all whose spirit the Lord had stirred to go up to build the house in Jerusalem for the Lord;
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and their neighbors helped them with everything, with silver and gold, with horses and cattle, and with a very great number of votive offerings from many whose hearts were stirred.
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Cyrus the king also brought out the holy vessels of the Lord which Nebuchadnezzar had carried away from Jerusalem and stored in his temple of idols.
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When Cyrus king of the Perians brought these out, he gave them to Mithridates his treasurer,
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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: a thousand gold cups, a thousand silver cups, twenty-nine silver censers, thirty gold bowls, two thousand four hundred and ten silver bowls, and a thousand other vessels.