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had prepared a largeroom for him, whereformerly they put the grain offerings, the frankincense, the utensils and the tithes of grain, wine and oilprescribed for the Levites, the singers and the gatekeepers, and the contributions for the priests.
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But during allthis time I was not in Jerusalem, for in the thirty-second*year of Artaxerxesking of Babylon I had gone to the king. After some time, however, I asked leave from the king,
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Then I gave an order and they cleansed the rooms; and I returnedthere the utensils of the house of God with the grain offerings and the frankincense.