25 And you, Ezra, according to your God-given wisdom, (A)set magistrates and judges who may judge all the people who are in the region beyond the River, all such as know the laws of your God; and (B)teach those who do not know them. 26 Whoever will not observe the law of your God and the law of the king, let judgment be executed speedily on him, whether it be death, or [a]banishment, or confiscation of goods, or imprisonment.

27 (C)Blessed[b] be the Lord God of our fathers, (D)who has put such a thing as this in the king’s heart, to beautify the house of the Lord which is in Jerusalem,

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Footnotes

  1. Ezra 7:26 Lit. rooting out
  2. Ezra 7:27 The Hebrew language resumes in Ezra 7:27.

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