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I command you also that ye require no tax nor any other imposition on any of the priests, or Levites, or holy singers, or doorkeepers, or ministers of the temple, or on any that have doings in this temple, and that no man have authority to impose any thing upon them.
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"And thou, Ezra, according to the wisdom of God, ordain judges and justices, that they may judge in all Syria and Phoenicia all those who know the law of thy God; and those who know it not thou shalt teach.
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And whosoever shall transgress the law of thy God and of the king shall be punished diligently, whether it be by death or other punishment, by penalty of money or by imprisonment."
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Then said Ezra the scribe, "Blessed be the only Lord God of my fathers, who hath put these things into the heart of the king to glorify His house that is in Jerusalem,
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and hath honored me in the sight of the king and his counselors and all his friends and nobles.