21 Let all things be performed after God’s law diligently to the most high God, that wrath come not upon the kingdom of the king and his sons. (WEB) 22 I command you also that no tax, nor any other imposition, be laid upon any of the priests, or Levites, or holy singers, or gatekeepers, or temple servants, or any that have employment in this temple, and that no man has authority to impose any tax on them. (WEB) 23 You, Esdras, according to the wisdom of God, ordain judges and justices that they may judge in all Syria and Phoenicia all those who know the law of your God; and those who don’t know it, you shall teach. (WEB)
1 Esdras 8:21–23
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