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20 If you need anything else for your God’s Temple or for any similar needs, you may take it from the royal treasury.

21 “I, Artaxerxes the king, hereby send this decree to all the treasurers in the province west of the Euphrates River[a]: ‘You are to give Ezra, the priest and teacher of the law of the God of heaven, whatever he requests of you. 22 You are to give him up to 7,500 pounds[b] of silver, 500 bushels[c] of wheat, 550 gallons of wine, 550 gallons of olive oil,[d] and an unlimited supply of salt.

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Footnotes

  1. 7:21 Aramaic the province beyond the river; also in 7:25.
  2. 7:22a Aramaic 100 talents [3,400 kilograms].
  3. 7:22b Aramaic 100 cors [22 kiloliters].
  4. 7:22c Aramaic 100 baths [2.1 kiloliters] of wine, 100 baths of olive oil.

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