1 Esdras 4:48-50

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⁴⁸ And he wrote letters to all the governors in Coelesyria and Phoenicia and to those in Lebanon, to bring cedar timber from Lebanon to Jerusalem and to help him build the city.^{(A) 49} He wrote in behalf of all the Jews who were going up from his kingdom to Judea, in the interest of their freedom, that no officer or satrap or governor or treasurer should forcibly enter their doors; ⁵⁰ that all the region that they would occupy should be theirs without tribute; that the Idumeans should give up the villages of the Jews that they held;^(B)