52
And other ten talents yearly, to maintain the burnt offerings upon the altar every day, as they had a commandment to offer seventeen:
53
And that all they that went from Babylon to build the city should have free liberty, as well they as their posterity, and all the priests that went away.
54
He wrote also concerning. the charges, and the priests' vestments wherein they minister;
55
And likewise for the charges of the Levites, to be given them until the day that the house were finished, and Jerusalem builded up.
56
And he commanded to give to all that kept the city pensions and wages.
The Brenton translation of the Septuagint is in the public domain.