Ezra-Nehemiah (2 Esdras) 23:4
Source: Septuagint
4And before this time Eliashib the priest dwelt in the treasury of the house of our God, connected with Tobiah;
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2because they met not the children of Israel with bread and water, but hired Balaam against them to curse them: but our God turned the curse into a blessing.
3And it came to pass, when they heard the law, that they were separated, even every alien in Israel.
— Ezra-Nehemiah (2 Esdras) 23:4 —
5and he made himself a great treasury, and there they were formerly in the habit of bestowing the offerings, and the frankincense, and the vessels, and the tithe of the corn, and the wine, and the oil, the ordered portion of the Levites, and singers, and porters; and the firstfruits of the priests.
6But in all this time I was not in Jerusalem; for in the thirty-second year of Artaxerxes king of Babylon I came to the king, and after a certain time I made my request of the king;