Ezra 7:17-22

7:17 With this money you should be sure to purchase bulls, rams, and lambs, along with the appropriate ¹  meal offerings and libations. You should bring them to the altar of the temple of your God which is in Jerusalem. 7:18 You may do whatever seems appropriate to you and your colleagues ²  with the rest of the silver and the gold, in keeping with the will of your God. 7:19 Deliver to ³  the God of Jerusalem the vessels that are given to you for the service of the temple of your God. 7:20 The rest of the needs for the temple of your God that you may have to supply, ⁴  you may do so from the royal treasury.

7:21 “I, King Artaxerxes, hereby issue orders to all the treasurers of ⁵  Trans-Euphrates, that you precisely execute all that Ezra the priestly scribe of the law of the God of heaven may request of you – 7:22 up to 100 talents of silver, 100 cors of wheat, 100 baths of wine, 100 baths of olive oil, ⁶  and unlimited ⁷  salt.

[7:17]  ¹ tn Aram “their meal offerings and their libations.”

[7:18]  ² tn Aram “brothers.”

[7:19]  ³ tn Or “before.”

[7:20]  ⁴ tn Aram “may fall to you to give.”

[7:21]  ⁵ tn Aram “who are in.”

[7:22]  ⁶ tc The translation reads מְשַׁח בַּתִּין (mÿshakh battin) rather than מְשַׁח בַּתִּין (battin mÿshakh) of the MT.

[7:22]  ⁷ tn Aram “he did not write.”