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As many therefore as have a mind thereunto, let them depart with thee, as it hath seemed good both to me and my seven friends the counselors,
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that they may look unto the affairs of Judea and Jerusalem, agreeably to that which is in the law of the Lord,
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and carry the gifts unto the Lord of Israel to Jerusalem, which I and my friends have vowed, and all the gold and silver that in the country of Babylon can be found, to the Lord in Jerusalem;
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with that also which is given by the people for the temple of the Lord their God at Jerusalem; and that silver and gold may be collected for bullocks, rams, and lambs, and things thereunto appertaining,
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to the end that they may offer sacrifices unto the Lord upon the altar of the Lord their God which is in Jerusalem.
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And whatsoever thou and thy brethren will do with the silver and gold, that do according to the will of thy God.
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And the holy vessels of the Lord, which are given thee for the use of the temple of thy God which is in Jerusalem, thou shalt set before thy God in Jerusalem.
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And whatsoever thing else thou shalt remember for the use of the temple of thy God, thou shalt give it out of the king's treasury.
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"And I, King Artaxerxes, have also commanded the keepers of the treasures in Syria and Phoenicia that whatsoever Ezra the priest and the reader of the law of the Most High God shall send for, they should give it to him with speed,
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to the sum of a hundred talents of silver, likewise also of wheat, even to a hundred cors, and a hundred casks of wine, and other things in abundance.
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Let all things be performed according to the law of God diligently unto the Most High God, that wrath come not upon the kingdom of the king and his sons.