Ezra 8:26-28

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

²⁶ I weighed out into their hand six hundred and fifty talents of silver, and one hundred silver vessels worth . . . talents,^[a] and one hundred talents of gold, ²⁷ twenty gold bowls worth a thousand darics, and two vessels of fine polished bronze as precious as gold. ²⁸ And I said to them, ‘You are holy to the Lord, and the vessels are holy; and the silver and the gold are a freewill-offering to the Lord, the God of your ancestors.