Ezra 7:17 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁷ With this money, then, you shall with all diligence buy bulls, rams, and lambs and their grain offerings and their drink offerings, and you shall offer them on the altar of the house of your God in Jerusalem.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁷ that thou mayest buy speedily with this money bullocks, rams, lambs, with their meat offerings and their drink offerings, and offer them upon the altar of the house of your God which is in Jerusalem.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁷ Therefore you shall with all speed and exactness buy with this money young bulls, rams, lambs, with their cereal offerings and drink offerings, and offer them on the altar of the house of your God in Jerusalem.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁷ therefore thou shalt with all diligence buy with this money bullocks, rams, lambs, with their meal-offerings and their drink-offerings, and shalt offer them upon the altar of the house of your God which is in Jerusalem.

Common English Bible

¹⁷ With this money you will be careful to buy bulls, rams, and lambs, as well as their grain offerings and their drink offerings. And you will offer them on the altar of God’s house in Jerusalem.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁷ accept it freely. And with this money, carefully purchase calves, rams, lambs, and their sacrifices and libations, and offer these upon the altar of the temple of your God, which is in Jerusalem.

Ezra 7:17 Cross References

John 2:14

In the temple he found people selling cattle, sheep, and doves and the money changers seated at their tables.

Ezra 7:18

Whatever seems good to you and your colleagues to do with the rest of the silver and gold, you may do, according to the will of your God.

Isaiah 16:1

Send lambs to the ruler of the land, from Sela, by way of the desert, to the mount of daughter Zion.

Numbers 15:3

and you make an offering by fire to the Lord from the herd or from the flock—whether a burnt offering or a sacrifice, to fulfill a vow or as a freewill offering or at your appointed festivals—to make a pleasing odor for the Lord,

Ezra 6:12

May the God who has established his name there overthrow any king or people who shall put forth a hand to alter this or to destroy this house of God in Jerusalem. I, Darius, make a decree; let it be done with all diligence.”