Ezra 8:25–34

²⁵And I weighed out to them the ⁿsilver and the gold and the vessels, the offering for the house of our God that the king and his ^ocounselors and his lords and all Israel there present had offered. ^26pI weighed out into their hand 650 talents⁴ of silver, and silver vessels worth 200 talents,⁵ and 100 talents of gold, ²⁷20 bowls of gold worth 1,000 darics,⁶ and two vessels of fine bright bronze as precious as gold. ²⁸And I said to them, ^q“You are holy to the Lord, and ^rthe vessels are holy, and the silver and the gold are a freewill offering to the Lord, the God of your fathers. ²⁹Guard them and keep them until you weigh them before the chief priests and the Levites and the heads of fathers’ houses in Israel at Jerusalem, ^swithin the chambers of the house of the Lord.” ³⁰So the priests and the Levites ^ptook over the weight of the silver and the gold and the vessels, to bring them to Jerusalem, to the house of our God.

³¹Then we departed from the river Ahava ^ton the twelfth day of the first month, to go to Jerusalem. ^uThe hand of our God was on us, and he delivered us from the hand of the enemy and from ambushes by the way. ^32vWe came to Jerusalem, and there we remained three days. ³³On the fourth day, within the house of our God, the silver and the gold and the vessels were ^wweighed into the hands of ^xMeremoth the priest, son of Uriah, and with him was Eleazar the son of Phinehas, and with them were the Levites, ^yJozabad the son of Jeshua and Noadiah the son of ^zBinnui. ³⁴The whole was counted and weighed, and the weight of everything was recorded.