Ezra 1
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Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of YHWH by the mouth
of Jeremiah might be accomplished, YHWH stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia,
so that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and [put it] also in writing,
saying,
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Thus says Cyrus king of Persia, All the kingdoms of the earth has YHWH, the God of
heaven, given me; and he has charged me to build him a house in Jerusalem, which is
in Judah.
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Whoever there is among you of all his people, his God be with him, and let him go
up to Jerusalem, which is in Judah, and build the house of YHWH, the God of Israel
(he is God), which is in Jerusalem.
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And whoever is left, in any place where he sojourns, let the men of his place help
him with silver, and with gold, and with goods, and with beasts, besides the freewill-offering
for the house of God which is in Jerusalem.
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Then rose up the heads of fathers` [houses] of Judah and Benjamin, and the priests,
and the Levites, even all whose spirit God had stirred to go up to build the house
of YHWH which is in Jerusalem.
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And all they that were round about them strengthened their hands with vessels of silver,
with gold, with goods, and with beasts, and with precious things, besides all that
was willingly offered.
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Also Cyrus the king brought forth the vessels of the house of YHWH, which Nebuchadnezzar
had brought forth out of Jerusalem, and had put in the house of his gods;
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even those did Cyrus king of Persia bring forth by the hand of Mithredath the treasurer,
and numbered them to Sheshbazzar, the prince of Judah.
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And this is the number of them: thirty platters of gold, a thousand platters of silver,
nine and twenty knives,
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thirty bowls of gold, silver bowls of a second sort four hundred and ten, and other
vessels a thousand.
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All the vessels of gold and of silver were five thousand and four hundred. All these
did Sheshbazzar bring up, when they of the captivity were brought up from Babylon
to Jerusalem.