25 And you, Ezra, according to[a] God’s wisdom that you possess, appoint magistrates and judges to judge all the people in the region west of the Euphrates who know the laws of your God and to teach anyone who does not know them.(A) 26 Anyone who does not keep the law of your God and the law of the king, let the appropriate judgment be executed against him, whether death, banishment, confiscation of property, or imprisonment.(B)

27 Blessed be the Lord, the God of our ancestors, who has put it into the king’s mind(C) to glorify the house of the Lord in Jerusalem,(D)

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