²⁹ Watch and keep them ^(A)until you weigh them before the leading priests, the Levites, and the leaders of the fathers’ households of Israel in Jerusalem, in the chambers of the house of the Lord.” ³⁰ So the priests and the Levites ^(B)accepted the weight of silver and gold and the utensils, to bring them to Jerusalem to the house of our God.

³¹ Then we journeyed from ^(C)the river Ahava on ^(D)the twelfth of the first month to go to Jerusalem; and ^(E)the hand of our God was upon us, and He rescued us from the hand of the enemy and the ambushes by the road.