1 Esdras 4:52-54

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⁵² and an additional ten talents a year for burnt offerings to be offered on the altar every day, in accordance with the commandment to make seventeen offerings;^{(A) 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.