28 Then I said to them, “(A)You are holy to the Lord, and the (B)utensils are holy; and the silver and the gold are a [a]voluntary offering to the Lord God of your fathers. 29 Watch and keep them (C)until you weigh them before the leading priests, the Levites, and the leaders of the fathers’ households of Israel in Jerusalem, in the chambers of the house of the Lord.” 30 So the priests and the Levites (D)accepted the weight of silver and gold and the utensils, to bring them to Jerusalem to the house of our God.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezra 8:28 Or freewill offering

28 I said to them, “You as well as these articles are consecrated to the Lord.(A) The silver and gold are a freewill offering to the Lord, the God of your ancestors. 29 Guard them carefully until you weigh them out in the chambers of the house of the Lord in Jerusalem before the leading priests and the Levites and the family heads of Israel.” 30 Then the priests and Levites received the silver and gold and sacred articles that had been weighed out to be taken to the house of our God in Jerusalem.

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