Ezra 7:17
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Take freely, and buy diligently with this money, calves, rams, lambs, with the sacrifices and libations of them, and offer them upon the altar of the temple of your God, that is in Jerusalem.

buy speedily.

Ezra 6:9,10 And if it shall be necessary, let calves also, and lambs, and kids, for holocausts to the God of heaven, wheat, salt, wine, and oil, according to the custom of the priests that are in Jerusalem, be given them day by day, that there be no complaint in any thing. . . .

Deuteronomy 14:24-26 But when the way and the place which the Lord thy God shall choose, are far off, and he hath blessed thee, and thou canst not carry all these things thither, . . .

Matthew 21:12,13 And Jesus went into the temple of God and cast out all them that sold and bought in the temple and overthrew the tables of the money changers and the chairs of them that sold doves. . . .

John 2:14 And he found in the temple them that sold oxen and sheep and doves, and the changers of money sitting.

their meat offerings

Numbers 15:4-13 Whosoever immolateth the victim, shall offer a sacrifice of fine flour, the tenth part of an ephi, tempered with the fourth part of a hin of oil: . . .

offer them

Deuteronomy 12:5-11 But you shall come to the place, which the Lord your God shall choose out of all your tribes, to put his name there, and to dwell in it: . . .

Context
Artaxerxes' Letter for Ezra
16And all the silver and gold that thou shalt find in all the province of Babylon, and that the people is willing to offer, and that the priests shall offer of their own accord to the house of their God, which is in Jerusalem, 17Take freely, and buy diligently with this money, calves, rams, lambs, with the sacrifices and libations of them, and offer them upon the altar of the temple of your God, that is in Jerusalem.18And if it seem good to thee, and to thy brethren to do any thing with the rest of the silver and gold, do it according to the will of your God.…
Cross References
Numbers 15:4
Whosoever immolateth the victim, shall offer a sacrifice of fine flour, the tenth part of an ephi, tempered with the fourth part of a hin of oil:

Deuteronomy 12:5
But you shall come to the place, which the Lord your God shall choose out of all your tribes, to put his name there, and to dwell in it:

Ezra 7:18
And if it seem good to thee, and to thy brethren to do any thing with the rest of the silver and gold, do it according to the will of your God.

Isaiah 16:1
Send forth, O Lord, the lamb, the ruler of the earth, from Petra of the desert, to the mount of the daughter of Sion.

Lexicon
With this
דְנָ֗ה (ḏə·nāh)
Pronoun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 1836: This

money,
בְּכַסְפָּ֣א (bə·ḵas·pā)
Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular determinate
Strong's Hebrew 3702: Silver, money

therefore,
דְּנָה֩ (də·nāh)
Pronoun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 1836: This

you are to buy
תִקְנֵ֜א (ṯiq·nê)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - second person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 7066: To acquire, buy

as many bulls,
תּוֹרִ֤ין ׀ (tō·w·rîn)
Noun - masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 8450: A bullock

rams,
דִּכְרִין֙ (diḵ·rîn)
Noun - masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 1798: A male, of sheep

and lambs
אִמְּרִ֔ין (’im·mə·rîn)
Noun - masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 563: A lamb

as needed,
אָסְפַּ֨רְנָא (’ā·sə·par·nā)
Adverb
Strong's Hebrew 629: Thoroughly, with (all) diligence

together with their grain offerings
וּמִנְחָתְה֖וֹן (ū·min·ḥā·ṯə·hō·wn)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - feminine plural construct | third person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 4504: A sacrificial offering

and drink offerings,
וְנִסְכֵּיה֑וֹן (wə·nis·kê·hō·wn)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine plural construct | third person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 5261: A drink offering

and offer
וּתְקָרֵ֣ב (ū·ṯə·qā·rêḇ)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Piel - Conjunctive imperfect - second person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 7127: To approach

them
הִמּ֔וֹ (him·mōw)
Pronoun - third person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 1994: They

on
עַֽל־ (‘al-)
Preposition
Strong's Hebrew 5922: Above, over, upon, against

the altar
מַדְבְּחָ֔ה (maḏ·bə·ḥāh)
Noun - masculine singular determinate
Strong's Hebrew 4056: A sacrificial altar

at the house
בֵּ֥ית (bêṯ)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's Hebrew 1005: A house

of your God
אֱלָהֲכֹ֖ם (’ĕ·lā·hă·ḵōm)
Noun - masculine singular construct | second person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 426: God

in Jerusalem.
בִירוּשְׁלֶֽם׃ (ḇî·rū·šə·lem)
Preposition-b | Noun - proper - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3390: Jerusalem -- the capital city of all Israel


Additional Translations
With this money, therefore, you are to buy as many bulls, rams, and lambs as needed, together with their grain offerings and drink offerings, and offer them on the altar at the house of your God in Jerusalem.That you may buy speedily with this money bullocks, rams, lambs, with their meat offerings and their drink offerings, and offer them on the altar of the house of your God which is in Jerusalem.

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.

And as for every one that arrives there, speedily order him by this letter to bring calves, rams, lambs, and their meat-offerings, and their drink-offerings; and thou shalt offer them on the altar of the house of your God which is in Jerusalem.

Therefore thou shalt buy diligently with this money bullocks, rams, lambs, with their oblations and their drink-offerings, and offer them upon the altar of the house of your God which is at Jerusalem.

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.

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.

therefore you shall with all diligence buy with this money bulls, rams, lambs, with their meal offerings and their drink offerings, and shall offer them on the altar of the house of your God which is in Jerusalem.

therefore thou dost speedily buy with this money, bullocks, rams, lambs, and their presents, and their libations, and dost bring them near to the altar of the house of your God that is in Jerusalem,
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