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Ezra 8:26

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I even weighed unto their hand six hundred and fifty talents of silver, and silver vessels an hundred talents, and of gold an hundred talents;

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  1. Ezra 8:24

    Then I separated twelve of the chief of the priests, Sherebiah, Hashabiah, and ten of their brethren with them,

  2. Ezra 8:25

    And weighed unto them the silver, and the gold, and the vessels, even the offering of the house of our God, which the king, and his counsellors, and his lords, and all Israel there present, had offered:

  3. Ezra 8:27

    Also twenty basons of gold, of a thousand drams; and two vessels of fine copper, precious as gold.

  4. Ezra 8:28

    And I said unto them, Ye are holy unto the Lord; the vessels are holy also; and the silver and the gold are a freewill offering unto the Lord God of your fathers.

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