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Text -- Ezra 8:26-36 (NET)
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8:26 I weighed out to them 650 talents of silver , silver vessels worth 100 talents , 100 talents of gold ,
8:27 20 gold bowls worth 1,000 darics , and two exquisite vessels of gleaming bronze , as valuable as gold .
8:28 Then I said to them, “You are holy to the Lord , just as these vessels are holy . The silver and the gold are a voluntary offering to the Lord , the God of your fathers .
8:29 Be careful with them and protect them, until you weigh them out before the leading priests and the Levites and the family leaders of Israel in Jerusalem , in the storerooms of the temple of the Lord .”
8:30 Then the priests and the Levites took charge of the silver , the gold , and the vessels that had been weighed out, to transport them to Jerusalem to the temple of our God .
8:31 On the twelfth day of the first month we began traveling from the Ahava Canal to go to Jerusalem . The hand of our God was on us, and he delivered us from our enemy and from bandits along the way .
8:32 So we came to Jerusalem , and we stayed there for three days .
8:33 On the fourth day we weighed out the silver , the gold , and the vessels in the house of our God into the care of Meremoth son of Uriah , the priest , and Eleazar son of Phinehas , who were accompanied by Jozabad son of Jeshua and Noadiah son of Binnui , who were Levites .
8:34 Everything was verified by number and by weight , and the total weight was written down at that time .
8:35 The exiles who were returning from the captivity offered burnt offerings to the God of Israel – twelve bulls for all Israel , ninety-six rams , seventy-seven male lambs , along with twelve male goats as a sin offering . All this was a burnt offering to the Lord .
8:36 Then they presented the decrees of the king to the king’s satraps and to the governors of Trans-Euphrates , who gave help to the people and to the temple of God .
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NET Notes: Ezr 8:26 Possibly “100 silver vessels worth [?] talents” or “silver vessels weighing 100 talents.”
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NET Notes: Ezr 8:29 For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.
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NET Notes: Ezr 8:31 Heb “from the hand of the enemy and the one who lies in wait.” Some modern English versions render the latter phrase as “ambushes...
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