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and he has commanded me to build him a house in Jerusalem, which is in Judah. <span class="reftext"><a href="/ezra/1-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Whoever there is among you of all his people, may 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. <span class="reftext"><a href="/ezra/1-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Whoever is left, in any place where he lives, let the men of his place help him with silver, with gold, with goods, and with animals, in addition to the free will offering for God’s house which is in Jerusalem.’” </p> <p class="hdg">The Exiles Plan Their Return</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezra/1-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Then the heads of fathers’ households of Judah and Benjamin, the priests and the Levites, all whose spirit God had stirred to go up, rose up to build Yahweh’s house which is in Jerusalem. <span class="reftext"><a href="/ezra/1-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>All those who were around them strengthened their hands with vessels of silver, with gold, with goods, with animals, and with precious things, in addition to all that was willingly offered. </p> <p class="hdg">Cyrus Restores the Holy Vessels</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezra/1-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Also Cyrus the king brought out the vessels of Yahweh’s house, which Nebuchadnezzar had brought out of Jerusalem, and had put in the house of his gods; <span class="reftext"><a href="/ezra/1-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>even those, Cyrus king of Persia brought out by the hand of Mithredath the treasurer, and counted them out to Sheshbazzar the prince of Judah. <span class="reftext"><a href="/ezra/1-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>This is the number of them: thirty platters of gold, one thousand platters of silver, twenty-nine knives, <span class="reftext"><a href="/ezra/1-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>thirty bowls of gold, four hundred ten silver bowls of a second kind, and one thousand other vessels. <span class="reftext"><a href="/ezra/1-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>All the vessels of gold and of silver were five thousand four hundred. Sheshbazzar brought all these up when the captives were brought up from Babylon to Jerusalem. </p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The World English Bible is a 1997 revision of the American Standard Version of the Holy Bible, first published in 1901. It is in the Public Domain. Please feel free to copy and distribute it freely. Thank you to Michael Paul Johnson for making this work available. 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