1 Esdras 4:55-57

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⁵⁵ He wrote that the support for the Levites should be provided until the day when the temple would be finished and Jerusalem built. ⁵⁶ He wrote that land and wages should be provided for all who guarded the city.^{(A) 57} And he sent back from Babylon all the vessels that Cyrus had set apart; everything that Cyrus had ordered to be done, he also commanded to be done and to be sent to Jerusalem.^(B)