So the first one came before him and said, ‘Sir, your mina has made ten minas more.’

Then the second one came and said, ‘Sir, your mina has made five minas.’

But they said to him, ‘Sir, he has ten minas already!’

And he said to his attendants, ‘Take the mina from him, and give it to the one who has ten.’

Then another slave came and said, ‘Sir, here is your mina that I put away for safekeeping in a piece of cloth.

Some of the family leaders gave to the project treasury 20,000 gold drachmas and 2,200 silver minas.

What the rest of the people gave amounted to 20,000 gold drachmas, 2,000 silver minas, and 67 priestly garments.

He also made three hundred small shields of hammered gold; three minas of gold were used for each of these shields. The king placed them in the Palace of the Lebanon Forest.

As they were able, they gave to the treasury for this work 61,000 drachmas of gold, 5,000 minas of silver, and 100 priestly robes.

And he summoned ten of his slaves, gave them ten minas, and said to them, ‘Do business with these until I come back.’

The shekel will be twenty gerahs. Sixty shekels will be a mina for you.

Some of the family leaders contributed to the work. The governor contributed to the treasury 1,000 gold drachmas, 50 bowls, and 530 priestly garments.