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1 Esdras 4:5-7
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
1 Esdras 4:5-7
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
5 They kill and are killed and do not disobey the king’s command; if they win the victory, they bring everything to the king—whatever spoil they take and everything else. 6 Likewise those who do not serve in the army or make war but till the soil; whenever they sow and reap, they bring some to the king, and they compel one another to pay taxes to the king.(A) 7 And yet he is only one man! If he tells them to kill, they kill; if he tells them to release, they release;(B)
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