Ezra 8:29-31

Contemporary English Version

²⁹ Be sure to guard them and keep them safe until you reach Jerusalem. Then weigh them inside God's temple in the presence of the chief priests, the Levites, and the heads of the Israelite families.

³⁰ The priests and Levites then took charge of the gifts that had been weighed, so they could take them to the temple of our God in Jerusalem.

The Return to Jerusalem

³¹ On the twelfth day of the first month,^[a] we left the Ahava River^[b] and started for Jerusalem. Our God watched over us, and as we traveled along, he kept our enemies from ambushing us.