49 Moreover he wrote for all the Jews who would go out of his realm up into Judea concerning their freedom, that no officer, no governor, no local governor, nor treasurer, should forcibly enter into their doors, (WEB) 50 and that all the country which they occupied should be free to them without tribute, and that the Edomites should give up the villages of the Jews which they held at that time, (WEB) 51 and that there should be given twenty talents yearly toward the building of the temple, until the time that it was built, (WEB) 52 and another ten talents yearly for burnt offerings to be presented upon the altar every day, as they had a commandment to make seventeen offerings, (WEB) 53 and that all those who would come from Babylonia to build the city should have their freedom—they and their descendants, and all the priests that came. (WEB)
1 Esdras 4:49–53
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