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Let all things be performed according to the law of God diligently unto the Most High God, that wrath come not upon the kingdom of the king and his sons.
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"And I, King Artaxerxes, have also commanded the keepers of the treasures in Syria and Phoenicia that whatsoever Ezra the priest and the reader of the law of the Most High God shall send for, they should give it to him with speed,
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to the sum of a hundred talents of silver, likewise also of wheat, even to a hundred cors, and a hundred casks of wine, and other things in abundance.
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Let all things be performed according to the law of God diligently unto the Most High God, that wrath come not upon the kingdom of the king and his sons.
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I command you also that ye require no tax nor any other imposition on any of the priests, or Levites, or holy singers, or doorkeepers, or ministers of the temple, or on any that have doings in this temple, and that no man have authority to impose any thing upon them.
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"And thou, Ezra, according to the wisdom of God, ordain judges and justices, that they may judge in all Syria and Phoenicia all those who know the law of thy God; and those who know it not thou shalt teach.
Third Millennium Bible (TMB), New Authorized Version, Copyright 1998 by Deuel Enterprises, Inc., Gary, SD 57237. All rights reserved.