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Now in the first year of Koresh king of Paras, that the word of Yahuah by the mouth of Yirmeyahu might be accomplished, Yahuah stirred up the spirit of Koresh king of Paras, so that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and put it also in writing, saying,
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"Thus says Koresh king of Paras, 'Yahuah, Elohim of heaven, has given me all the kingdoms of the earth; and he has commanded me to build him a house in Yerushalayim, which is in Yehudah.
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Whoever there is among you of all his people, may his Elohim be with him, and let him go up to Yerushalayim, which is in Yehudah, and build the house of Yahuah, Elohim of Yisra’el (he is Elohim), which is in Yerushalayim.
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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, besides the freewill offering for the House of Elohim which is in Yerushalayim.'"
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Then the heads of fathers' households of Yehudah and Binyamin, and the kohenim, and the Leviyim, even all whose spirit Elohim had stirred to go up rose up to build the house of Yahuah which is in Yerushalayim.
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All those who were around them strengthened their hands with vessels of silver, with gold, with goods, and with animals, and with precious things, besides all that was willingly offered.
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Also Koresh the king brought forth the vessels of the house of Yahuah, which Nevukhadnetzar had brought out of Yerushalayim, and had put in the house of his powers;
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even those, Koresh king of Paras brought out by the hand of Mithredath the treasurer, and numbered them to Sheshbatzar, the prince of Yehudah.
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This is the number of them: thirty platters of gold, one thousand platters of silver, twenty-nine knives,
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thirty bowls of gold, silver bowls of a second sort four hundred and ten, and other vessels one thousand.
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All the vessels of gold and of silver were five thousand and four hundred. Sheshbatzar brought all these up, when the captives were brought up from Bavel to Yerushalayim.