17. With this money you will be careful to buy bulls, rams, and lambs, as well as their grain offerings and their drink offerings. And you will offer them on the altar of God’s house in Jerusalem.
18. As long as it is God’s will, you and your colleagues may do what you think best with the rest of the silver and gold.
19. You will deliver the equipment that has been given to you for the service of God’s house to the God of Jerusalem.
20. If anything else is required for God’s house that you are responsible to provide, you may provide it from the royal treasury.
21. I, King Artaxerxes, decree to all of the treasurers in the province Beyond the River: Whatever Ezra the priest and scribe of the Instruction from the God of heaven requires of you, it must be provided precisely,
22. even up to one hundred kikkars of silver, one hundred kors of wheat, one hundred baths of wine, one hundred baths of oil, and unlimited salt.