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No reckoning shall be asked of them regarding the funds provided to them, because they hold positions of trust.”

The high priest Hilkiah informed the scribe Shaphan, “I have found the book of the law[a] in the temple of the Lord.” Hilkiah gave the book to Shaphan, who read it. Then the scribe Shaphan went to the king and reported, “Your servants have smelted down the silver deposited in the temple and have turned it over to the master workers in the house of the Lord.”

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Footnotes

  1. 22:8 Book of the law: probably an early edition of material now found in the Book of Deuteronomy.

But they need not account for the money entrusted to them, because they are honest in their dealings.”(A)

Hilkiah the high priest said to Shaphan the secretary, “I have found the Book of the Law(B) in the temple of the Lord.” He gave it to Shaphan, who read it. Then Shaphan the secretary went to the king and reported to him: “Your officials have paid out the money that was in the temple of the Lord and have entrusted it to the workers and supervisors at the temple.”

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