Every survivor, at whatever place he may [a]live, let the men of [b]that place support him with silver and gold, with goods and cattle, together with a freewill offering for the house of God which is in Jerusalem.’”

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Then the heads of fathers’ households of Judah and Benjamin and the priests and the Levites arose, (A)even everyone whose spirit God had stirred to go up and rebuild the house of the Lord which is in Jerusalem. All those about them [c](B)encouraged them with articles of silver, with gold, with goods, with cattle and with valuables, aside from all that was given as a freewill offering.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezra 1:4 Or reside as an alien
  2. Ezra 1:4 Lit his
  3. Ezra 1:6 Lit strengthened their hands