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In the wake of this, all kinds of people, great and small, as well as the army officers, set out and went to Egypt; because they were afraid of the Kasdim.
27
In the thirty-seventh year of the captivity of Y'hoyakhin king of Y'hudah, in the twelfth month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, Eveel-M'rodakh began his reign as king of Bavel; and in his first year he commuted the sentence of Y'hoyakhin king of Y'hudah and released him from prison.
28
He treated him with kindness and gave him a throne higher than those of the other kings there with him in Bavel.
29
So Y'hoyakhin no longer had to wear prison clothes; moreover, he was provided with food as long as he lived;
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and he was granted a daily allowance by the king to spend on his other needs for as long as he lived.