1 Esdras 4:53

53 and that all those who went from Babylon to build the city should have free liberty, they as well as their posterity, and all the priests who went away.

1 Esdras 4:53 In-Context

51 yea, that there should be yearly given twenty talents to the building of the temple until the time that it was built,

52 and another 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 those who went from Babylon to build the city should have free liberty, they as well as their posterity, and all the priests who 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 was finished and Jerusalem built up.