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When he stopped speaking, all the people shouted and said, "Great is truth, and strongest of all!"
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Then the king said to him, "Ask what you wish, even beyond what is written, and we will give it to you, for you have been found to be the wisest. You shall sit next to me, and be called my Kinsman."
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Then he said to the king, "Remember the vow that you made on the day when you became king, to build Jerusalem,
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and to send back all the vessels that were taken from Jerusalem, which Cyrus set apart when he began to destroy Babylon, and vowed to send them back there.
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You also vowed to build the temple, which the Edomites burned when Judea was laid waste by the Chaldeans.
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