¹⁷ Then you are to be diligent to buy with this money bulls, rams, and lambs, along with their grain and drink offerings, and offer them on the altar at the house of your God in Jerusalem.^(A)

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]