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"And you, Ezra, according to the wisdom of God, appoint judges and justices to judge all those who know the law of your God, throughout all Syria and Phoenicia; and those who do not know it you shall teach.
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And all who transgress the law of your God or the law of the kingdom shall be strictly punished, whether by death or some other punishment, either fine or imprisonment."
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Blessed be the Lord alone, who put this into the heart of the king, to glorify his house which is in Jerusalem,
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and who honored me in the sight of the king and his counselors and all his friends and nobles.
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I was encouraged by the help of the Lord my God, and I gathered men from Israel to go up with me.
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These are the principal men, according to their fathers' houses and their groups, who went up with me from Babylon, in the reign of Artaxerxes the king:
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Of the sons of Phineas, Gershom. Of the sons of Ithamar, Gamael. Of the sons of David, Hattush the son of Shecaniah.
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Of the sons of Parosh, Zechariah, and with him a hundred and fifty men enrolled.
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Of the sons of Pahathmoab, Eliehoenai the son of Zerahiah, and with him two hundred men.
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Of the sons of Zattu, Shecaniah the son of Jahaziel, and with him three hundred men. Of the sons of Adin, Obed the son of Jonathan, and with him two hundred and fifty men.
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Of the sons of Elam, Jeshaiah the son of Gotholiah, and with him seventy men.