1 Esdras 4:44-54

44 and to send back all the vessels that were taken from Jerusalem, which Cyrus set apart when he began to destroy Babylon, and vowed to send them back there.
45 You also vowed to build the temple, which the Edomites burned when Judea was laid waste by the Chaldeans.
46 And now, O lord the king, this is what I ask and request of you, and this befits your greatness. I pray therefore that you fulfil the vow whose fulfilment you vowed to the King of heaven with your own lips."
47 Then Darius the king rose, and kissed him, and wrote letters for him to all the treasurers and governors and generals and satraps, that they should give escort to him and all who were going up with him to build Jerusalem.
48 And he wrote letters to all the governors in Coelesyria and Phoenicia and to those in Lebanon, to bring cedar timber from Lebanon to Jerusalem, and to help him build the city.
49 And he wrote for all the Jews who were going up from his kingdom to Judea, in the interest of their freedom, that no officer or satrap or governor or treasurer should forcibly enter their doors;
50 that all the country which they would occupy should be theirs without tribute; that the Idumeans should give up the villages of the Jews which they held;
51 that twenty talents a year should be given for the building of the temple until it was completed,
52 and an additional ten talents a year for burnt offerings to be offered on the altar every day, in accordance with the commandment to make seventeen offerings;
53 and that all who came from Babylonia to build the city should have their freedom, they and their children and all the priests who came.
54 He wrote also concerning their support and the priests' garments in which they were to minister.
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