“I said to them, “You are holy to Yahweh, and the vessels are holy. The silver and the gold are a free will offering to Yahweh, the God of your fathers.”
Ezra 8:28 (WEB)
Context Reading
26I weighed into their hand six hundred fifty talents of silver,one hundred talents of silver vessels, one hundred talents of gold, 27twenty bowls of gold weighing one thousand darics,and two vessels of fine bright bronze, precious as gold. 28I said to them, “You are holy to Yahweh, and the vessels are holy. The silver and the gold are a free will offering to Yahweh, the God of your fathers. 29Watch and keep them until you weigh them before the chiefs of the priests, the Levites, and the princes of the fathers’ households of Israel at Jerusalem, in the rooms of Yahweh’s house.” 30So the priests and the Levites received the weight of the silver, the gold, and the vessels, to bring them to Jerusalem to the house of our God.