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And that all the country which they hold should be free without tribute; and that the Edomites should give over the villages of the Jews which then they held:
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He wrote letters also unto the lieutenants that were in Celosyria and Phenice, and unto them in Libanus, that they should bring cedar wood from Libanus unto Jerusalem, and that they should build the city with him.
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Moreover he wrote for all the Jews that went out of his realm up into Jewry, concerning their freedom, that no officer, no ruler, no lieutenant, nor treasurer, should forcibly enter into their doors;
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And that all the country which they hold should be free without tribute; and that the Edomites should give over the villages of the Jews which then they held:
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Yea, that there should be yearly given twenty talents to the building of the temple, until the time that it were built;
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And other ten talents yearly, to maintain the burnt offerings upon the altar every day, as they had a commandment to offer seventeen: