Now viewing scripture range from the book of 1 Esdras chapter 2:11 through chapter 2:14...
11 Now when Cyrus king of the Persians had brought them forth, he delivered them to Mithridates his treasurer:
12 And by him they were delivered to Sanabassar the governor of Judea.
13 And this was the number of them; A thousand golden cups, and a thousand of silver, censers of silver twenty nine, vials of gold thirty, and of silver two thousand four hundred and ten, and a thousand other vessels.
14 So all the vessels of gold and of silver, which were carried away, were five thousand four hundred threescore and nine.
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