1 Esdras 1:2-4

Wycliffe Bible

² ordaining (the) priests by their whiles of days, clothed in stoles, or long clothes, in the temple of the Lord.

³ And he said to the deacons [or to the Levites], the holy servants of Israel, that they should hallow themselves to the Lord, in (the) setting of the holy ark of the Lord in the house, that king Solomon, the son of David, builded;

⁴ It shall not be to you no more to take it upon (your) shoulders; and now serveth to our Lord, and do ye (the) care of that folk of Israel, of the part after towns, and their lineages,