38
"And concerning the three governments that are added to Judea from the country of Samaria, let them be joined with Judea, that they may be reckoned to be under one, not bound to obey other authority than the high priest's.
39
As for Ptolemais and the land pertaining thereto, I give it as a free gift to the sanctuary at Jerusalem for the necessary expenses of the sanctuary.
40
Moreover, I give every year fifteen thousand shekels of silver out of the king's accounts from the appertaining places.
41
And all the overplus, which the officers paid not in as in former times, from henceforth shall be given toward the works of the temple.
42
And besides this, the five thousand shekels of silver, which they took from the uses for the temple out of the accounts year by year, even those things shall be released, because they appertain to the priests who minister.
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