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"And now I free you and exempt all the Jews from payment of tribute and salt tax and crown levies,
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and instead of collecting the third of the grain and the half of the fruit of the trees that I should receive, I release them from this day and henceforth. I will not collect them from the land of Judah or from the three districts added to it from Samaria and Galilee, from this day and for all time.
31
And let Jerusalem and her environs, her tithes and her revenues, be holy and free from tax.
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I release also my control of the citadel in Jerusalem and give it to the high priest, that he may station in it men of his own choice to guard it.
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And every one of the Jews taken as a captive from the land of Judah into any part of my kingdom, I set free without payment; and let all officials cancel also the taxes on their cattle.
Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyright 1952 [2nd edition, 1971] by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.