29 “Now I free you and release all the Jews from the tributes, from the salt tax, and from the crown levies. (WEB) 30 Instead of the third part of the seed, and instead of half of the fruit of the trees, which falls to me to receive, I release it from this day and henceforth, so that I will not take it from the land of Judah, and from the three districts which are added to it from the country of Samaria and Galilee, from this day forth and for all time. (WEB) 31 Let Jerusalem be holy and free, with her borders, tithes, and taxes. (WEB) 32 I yield up also my authority over the citadel which is at Jerusalem, and give it to the high priest, that he may appoint in it men whom he chooses to keep it. (WEB) 33 Every soul of the Jews who has been carried captive from the land of Judah into any part of my kingdom, I set at liberty without payment. Let all officials also cancel the taxes on their livestock. (WEB) 34 “All the feasts, the Sabbaths, new moons, appointed days, three days before a feast, and three days after a feast, let them all be days of immunity and release for all the Jews who are in my kingdom. (WEB) 35 No man shall have authority to exact anything from any of them, or to trouble them concerning any matter. (WEB)
1 Maccabees 10:29–35
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