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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;
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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.
55
He wrote that the support for the Levites should be provided until the day when the temple should be finished and Jerusalem built.
56
He wrote that land and wages should be provided for all who guarded the city.
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