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20 And the remainder of the needs for the house of your God that falls to you to provide, you may provide from the house of the king’s treasury.”

21 “I, even I, King Artaxerxes, issue forth a decree to all the treasurers who are in the province Beyond the River. Whatever the priest Ezra, the scribe of the law of the God of heaven, may ask of you, let it be done with diligence, 22 up to one hundred talents of silver, one hundred measures of wheat, one hundred baths of wine, one hundred baths of oil, and unlimited salt.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Ezra 7:22 Literally, “salt that is not specified”