Ezra 6:9

Bullocks, and rams, and lambs. These were the chief sacrificial animals of the Jews — a lamb being required every morning and evening, 2 more on the Sabbath, 7 at each of the great feasts and at the beginning of each month, and 14 on every day during the Feast of Tabernacles. This would be altogether more than a thousand in the course of a year. Rams and bullocks were added to the lambs on the more solemn occasions. The only other ordinary sacrificial animal was “a kid of the goats.” Wheat, salt, wine, and oil. These commodities were needed for the “meat offerings” by which every burnt offering was accompanied (Ex. 29:40, 41; see on Lev. 2:13). According to the appointment. It was a most extraordinary concession to the Jews to allow their priests to fix the amount of support they should receive from the satrap. Darius must have had confidence that the Jews would not abuse his generosity. The integrity of men such as Daniel, Mordecai, Ezra, Nehemiah, and perhaps others, doubtless had made a deep impression on the monarchs under whom they served. It seems probable that some influential Jews were employed in the state department of the Persian Empire. The hand of one of these men probably had part in the preparation of this decree of Darius.