⁸ Furthermore, ^(A)I issue a decree concerning what you are to do for these elders of Judah in the rebuilding of that house of God: the full cost is to be paid to those people from the royal treasury out of the taxes of the provinces beyond the Euphrates River, and that without interruption.

²⁰ And the rest of the needs of the house of your God, for which it may be incumbent upon you to provide, ^(A)provide for them from the royal treasury.