1 Esdras 4:53-55

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⁵³ and that all who came from Babylonia to build the city should have their freedom, they and their children and all the priests who came. ⁵⁴ He wrote also concerning their support and the priests’ vestments in which they were to minister. ⁵⁵ He wrote that the support for the Levites should be provided until the day when the temple would be finished and Jerusalem built.