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          DASV: Ezra 1

1 In the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, in order that the
word of the LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah might be fulfilled, the
LORD roused the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, so that he made a
proclamation throughout his entire kingdom, and also put it in writing:
2 "This is what Cyrus king of Persia says, 'The LORD, God of heaven,
has given me all the kingdoms of the earth and he has charged me to
build a temple for him at Jerusalem, which is in Judah.
3 Anyone among you who are from all his people, may his God be
with him, and let him go up to Jerusalem, which is in Judah,
and build the temple of the LORD, the God of Israel. He is the
God who is in Jerusalem.
4 Let any of the survivors, in any place where they are living,
be assisted by his neighbors with silver, gold, goods and with animals,
including the freewill offerings for the temple of God that is in
Jerusalem."
5 Then the heads of the families of Judah and Benjamin and the priests
and Levites, everyone whose spirit God had roused, prepared to go up
to build the temple for the LORD that is in Jerusalem.
6 All their neighbors around them supported them with items of silver,
gold and with goods and animals, and with valuable gifts, besides
all that was freely offered.
7 Cyrus the king also brought out the vessels of the temple of the LORD
that Nebuchadnezzar had carried off from Jerusalem and had put in the
temple of his gods.
8 Cyrus king of Persia had them released into the hand of Mithredath
the treasurer who in turn counted them out to Sheshbazzar the prince
of Judah.
9 The inventory of these items was: 30 gold basins, 1,000 silver basins,
29 silver censers,
10 30 gold bowls, 410 other silver bowls, and 1,000 other items.
11 There were a total of 5,400 items of gold and silver. Sheshbazzar
brought all of these with them, when the exiles were brought up from
Babylon to Jerusalem.

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