Ezra:1

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* Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia , that the word of Yahweh by the mouth of Jeremiah might be accomplished , Yahweh 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 , * Thus says Cyrus king of Persia , All the kingdoms of the earth has Yahweh , the God of heaven , given me ; and he has charged me to build him a house in Jerusalem , which is in Judah . * Whoever there is among you (note :){+}(:note ) 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 Yahweh , the God of Israel (he is God ), which is in Jerusalem . * 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 . * Then the heads of fathers ' [houses ] of Judah and Benjamin rose up , and the priests , and the Levites , even all whose spirit God had stirred to go up to build the house of Yahweh which is in Jerusalem . * And all those who 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 . * Also Cyrus the king brought forth the vessels of the house of Yahweh , which Nebuchadnezzar had brought forth out of Jerusalem , and had put in the house of his gods ; * even those Cyrus king of Persia brought forth by the hand of Mithredath the treasurer , and numbered them to Sheshbazzar , the prince of Judah . * And this is the number of them : thirty platters of gold , a thousand platters of silver , nine and twenty altered , * thirty bowls of gold , spare silver bowls four hundred and ten , and other vessels a thousand . * All the vessels of gold and of silver were five thousand and four hundred . All these Sheshbazzar had brought up , when those of the captivity were brought up from Babylon to Jerusalem .

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