“This is the number of them: thirty platters of gold, one thousand platters of silver, twenty-nine knives,”

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. Ezra 1 contains 11 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.