Ezra 7:13-15

New American Standard Bible 1995

^13 (A)I have issued a decree that any of the people of Israel and their priests and the Levites in my kingdom who are willing to go to Jerusalem, may go with you. ¹⁴ Forasmuch as you are sent ^[a]by the king and his ^(B)seven counselors to inquire concerning Judah and Jerusalem according to the law of your God which is in your hand, ¹⁵ and to bring the silver and gold, which the king and his counselors have freely offered to the God of Israel, ^(C)whose dwelling is in Jerusalem,