Ezra 1

1In the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, so that the word of Yahweh from the mouth of Jeremiah might be fulfilled, Yahweh stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, and he sent a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and also in writing, saying:

2Thus says Cyrus king of Persia: Yahweh, the God of heaven, has given me all the kingdoms of the earth, and he has appointed me to build a house for him in Jerusalem, which is in Judah.

3Whoever among all his people is among you, may his God be with him, and let him go up to Jerusalem, which is in Judah, and rebuild the house of Yahweh, the God of Israel—he is the God who is in Jerusalem.

4And everyone who remains, in any place where he is living, let the men of his place support him with silver and gold, with goods and with livestock, together with the freewill offering for the house of God that is in Jerusalem.

5Then the heads of the fathers’ houses of Judah and Benjamin, and the priests and the Levites, arose—everyone whose spirit God had stirred—to go up to build the house of Yahweh that is in Jerusalem.

6And all those around them strengthened their hands with vessels of silver, with gold, with goods, with livestock, and with precious things, besides all that was freely offered.

7And King Cyrus brought out the vessels of the house of Yahweh, which Nebuchadnezzar had brought out from Jerusalem and had put in the house of his god.

8King Cyrus of Persia brought them out by the hand of Mithredath the treasurer, and counted them out to Sheshbazzar, the prince of Judah.

9And this was their number: 30 gold basins, 1,000 silver basins, and 29 knives.

1030 gold bowls, 410 silver bowls of a second kind, and 1,000 other vessels.

11All the articles of gold and silver were five thousand four hundred in all. Sheshbazzar brought them up with the exiles when they were brought up from Babylon to Jerusalem.