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Whereas you have kept covenants with us and continued in our friendship, not joining yourselves with our enemies, we have heard hereof and are glad.
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Therefore now continue ye still to be faithful unto us, and we will recompense you well for the things ye do on our behalf,
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and will grant you many immunities and give you rewards.
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"And now do I free you, and for your sake I release all the Jews from tribute and from the customs on salt and from crown taxes,
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and from that which appertaineth unto me to receive a third part of the seed and half of the fruit of the trees. I release it from this day forth, so that they shall not be taken from the land of Judea, nor from the three governments which are added thereunto out of the country of Samaria and Galilee, from this day forth for evermore.
Third Millennium Bible (TMB), New Authorized Version, Copyright 1998 by Deuel Enterprises, Inc., Gary, SD 57237. All rights reserved.