And it was so, that, at what time the chest was brought unto the king's officers by the hand of the Levites, and when they saw that there was much money, the king's scribe and the chief priest's officer came and emptied the chest, and took it, and carried it to its place again. Thus they did day by day, and gathered money in abundance.
And whanne it was tyme, þat þei schulden bere þe arke bifor þe kyng bi þe hondis of dekenes, for þei sien myche money, þe clerk of þe kyng entride, and he whom þe firste preest hadde ordeynede, and þei schedden out þe money, þat was in þe arke; soþeli þei baren ayen þe arke to his place. And so þei diden bi alle daies, and money with out noumbre was gaderid togidere;