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that twenty talents a year should be given for the building of the temple until it was completed,
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and an additional ten talents a year for burnt offerings to be offered on the altar every day, in accordance with the commandment to make seventeen offerings;
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and that all who came from Babylonia to build the city should have their freedom, they and their children and all the priests who came.
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He wrote also concerning their support and the priests' vestments in which they were to minister.
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He wrote that the support for the Levites should be provided until the day when the temple would be finished and Jerusalem built.
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