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10 Then they can offer sacrifices that please the Elah of heaven and pray for the life of the king and his sons.

11 I am also issuing a decree that if anyone tampers with my orders, that person should be impaled on a beam torn from his own house and his house should be turned into a pile of rubble.[a] 12 May the Elah whose name is worshiped there cause the downfall of each king and nation who tries to tamper with my orders or tries to destroy the temple of the Elah in Jerusalem.

I, Darius, have issued a decree. It’s to be carried out exactly as ordered.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezra 6:11 Hebrew meaning of this word uncertain.

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