18. And whatever shall seem good to thee and to thy brethren to do with the rest of the silver and the gold, that do according to the will of your God
19. And the vessels that have been given thee for the service of the house of thy God deliver before the God of Jerusalem.
20. And whatever more shall be needful for the house of thy God which thou shalt have occasion to bestow, bestow it out of the king's treasure house.
21. And I, I Artaxerxes the king, do give orders to all the treasurers that are beyond the river, that whatever Ezra the priest and scribe of the law of the God of the heavens shall require of you, it be done diligently,
22. unto a hundred talents of silver, and to a hundred measures of wheat, and to a hundred baths of wine, and to a hundred baths of oil, and salt without prescribing how much.
23. Whatever is commanded by the God of the heavens, let it be carefully done for the house of the God of the heavens; for why should there be wrath against the realm of the king and his sons?
24. Also we inform you, as regards all the priests and Levites, singers, doorkeepers, Nethinim, and ministers of this house of God it shall not be lawful to impose tribute, tax, and toll upon them.
25. And thou, Ezra, after the wisdom of thy God which is in thy hand, set magistrates and judges who may judge all the people that are beyond the river, all such as know the laws of thy God and teach ye him that knows them not.
26. And whosoever will not do the law of thy God and the law of the king, let judgment be executed diligently upon him, whether unto death, or to banishment, or to confiscation of goods, or to imprisonment.
27. Blessed be Jehovah the God of our fathers, who has put such a thing as this in the king's heart, to beautify the house of Jehovah which is at Jerusalem;
28. and has extended mercy to me before the king and his counsellors, and before all the king's mighty princes. And I was strengthened, as the hand of Jehovah my God was upon me; and I gathered together out of Israel chief men to go up with me.