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1 Esdras 8:19-21
Revised Standard Version
1 Esdras 8:19-21
Revised Standard Version
19 “And I, Artaxerxes the king, have commanded the treasurers of Syria and Phoenic′ia that whatever Ezra the priest and reader of the law of the Most High God sends for, they shall take care to give him, 20 up to a hundred talents of silver, and likewise up to a hundred cors of wheat, a hundred baths of wine, and salt in abundance. 21 Let all things prescribed in the law of God be scrupulously fulfilled for the Most High God, so that wrath may not come upon the kingdom of the king and his sons.
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