Ezra 7:24-26

The Voice

²⁴ Also do not charge taxes, tributes, or tolls to any priests, Levites, singers, gatekeepers, priests’ and Levites’ servants, or temple servants.

²⁵ Ezra, appoint officials and judges over everyone in the province west of the Euphrates, including the Jews who follow your True God’s laws, as the wisdom of your True God motivates you, and teach those who do not know His laws. ²⁶ Anyone who does not follow your True God’s law and my law will be judged harshly and punished by death, exile, foreclosure, or prison.