Ezra 1 · עזרא

Now in the first year of Koresh king of Paras, that the word of the Lord by the mouth of Yirmeya might be fulfilled, the Lord stirred up the spirit of Koresh king of Paras, that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and put it also in writing, saying,

Thus says Koresh king of Paras, The Lord God of heaven has given me all the kingdoms of the earth; and he has charged me to build him a house at Yerushalayim, which is in Yehuda.

Whoever is among you of all his people, let his God be with him, and let him go up to Yerushalayim, which is in Yehuda, and build the house of the Lord God of Yisra᾽el; (he is the God,) which is in Yerushalayim.

And whoever remains 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 that is in Yerushalayim.

Then rose up the chiefs of the fathers’ houses of Yehuda and Binyamin, and the priests, and the Levites, with all them whose spirit God had stirred to go up to build the house of the Lord which is in Yerushalayim.

And all they who were 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 Koresh the king brought forth the vessels of the house of the Lord, which Nevukhadneżżar had brought out of Yerushalayim, and had put them in the house of his gods;

those did Koresh king of Paras bring out by the hand of Mitredat the treasurer, and counted them out to Sheshbażżar, the prince of Yehuda.

And this is the number of them: thirty basins of gold, a thousand basins of silver, twenty nine knives,

thirty bowls of gold, silver bowls of a second sort four hundred and ten, and other vessels a thousand.

And the vessels of gold and of silver were five thousand four hundred. All these did Sheshbażżar bring, when the exiles were brought up from Bavel to Yerushalayim.