20 You may use the royal treasury[a] to pay for anything else needed for the house of your God.(A)

21 I, King Artaxerxes, issue a decree to all the treasurers in the region west of the Euphrates River:(B)

Whatever Ezra the priest, an expert in the law of the God of the heavens, asks of you must be provided in full,(C) 22 up to 7,500 pounds[b] of silver, 500 bushels[c] of wheat, 550 gallons[d] of wine, 550 gallons of oil, and salt without limit.[e]

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Footnotes

  1. 7:20 Lit the king’s house
  2. 7:22 Lit 100 talents
  3. 7:22 Lit 100 cors
  4. 7:22 Lit 100 baths
  5. 7:22 Lit without instruction

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