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What does Ezra 1:9 mean?

In total, there were fifty-four hundred gold and silver items. Sheshbazzar took all of them with the exiles as they left Babylon for Jerusalem. Ezra 1:9 - Modern Text Bible

(The full count is given to show nothing is missing. The exiles leave with both people and treasures, ready to start over.)