²⁷ From the goods taken in war, they gave, as a holy offering, materials for the building of the house of the Lord.

¹⁹ But all the silver and gold and the vessels of brass and iron are holy to the Lord: they are to come into the store-house of the Lord.

¹⁴ But it was all given to the workmen who were building up the house.

³² And we made rules for ourselves, taxing ourselves a third of a shekel every year for the upkeep of the house of our God;

³³ For the holy bread, and for the regular meal offering and the regular burned offering on the Sabbaths and at the new moon and the fixed feasts, and for the sin-offerings to take away the sin of Israel, and for all the work of the house of our God.

³⁴ And we, the priests and the Levites and the people, made selection, by the decision of the Lord, of those who were to take the wood offering into the house of God, by families at the regular times, year by year, to be burned on the altar of the Lord our God, as it is recorded in the law;