Ezra 7:15-23

Leeser(i) 15 And to carry the silver and gold, which the king and his counsellors have freely offered unto the God of Israel, whose habitation is in Jerusalem. 16 And all freewill offerings of silver and gold that thou canst find in all the province of Babylon, with the freewill offerings which the people and the priests offer willingly for the house of their God which is in Jerusalem. 17 Therefore mayest thou buy speedily with this money bullocks, rams, lambs, with their meat-offerings and their drink-offerings, and offer them upon the altar of the house of your God which is in Jerusalem. 18 And whatsoever shall seem good to thee, and to thy brethren, to do with the rest of the silver and the gold, that do according to the will of your God. 19 And the vessels which have been given unto thee for the service of the house of thy God, deliver thou before the God of Jerusalem. 20 And the remainder that will yet be needful for the house of thy God, which thou shalt have occasion to procure, procure out of the King’s treasure-house. 21 And by me, me King Artaxerxes, is the order given unto all the treasurers who are beyond the river, that whatsoever ‘Ezra the priest, the expounder of the law of the God of heaven, may demand of you, shall be done speedily. 22 Up to one hundred talents of silver, and up to one hundred cors of wheat, and up to one hundred baths of wine, and up to one hundred baths of oil, and salt without prescribing it. 23 Whatsoever is ordered by the God of heaven shall be carefully done for the house of the God of heaven; for why should there be wrath against the kingdom of the king and his sons?