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20 And whatever else is needed for the house of your God and is your responsibility to provide, use the king’s treasury to pay for it.

21 “I, even I Artaxerxes the king, issue a decree to all the treasurers of the province Beyond the River, that whatever Ezra the priest, scribe of the law of the God of heaven, should request from you, you should do it with all diligence— 22 as much as a hundred talents[a] of silver, a hundred measures[b] of wheat, a hundred baths[c] of wine, a hundred baths[d] of oil, and salt (without prescribing how much).

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Footnotes

  1. Ezra 7:22 About 3¾ tons, or 3.4 metric tons.
  2. Ezra 7:22 Likely about 18 tons, or 16 metric tons.
  3. Ezra 7:22 About 600 gallons, or 2,200 liters.
  4. Ezra 7:22 About 600 gallons, or 2,200 liters.