¹⁹ The vessels also that are given to you for the service of the house of your God, deliver before the God of Jerusalem. ²⁰ And whatever else is needed for the house of your God and is your responsibility to provide, use the king’s treasury to pay for it.

²¹ “I, even I Artaxerxes the king, issue a decree to all the treasurers of the province Beyond the River, that whatever Ezra the priest, scribe of the law of the God of heaven, should request from you, you should do it with all diligence—