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18 and other things, whatever will help to (or for) the works of the temple of thy God, thou shalt give it (out) of the king’s treasury, when thou wilt make the work with thy brethren, with gold and silver; and perform thou all thing(s) after the will of thy Lord.

19 And I, king Artaxerxes, have commanded to [the] keepers of the treasures of Syria and of Phenice (or have commanded to the treasury officials of Syria and Phoenicia), that whatever things Ezra, the priest, and (the) reader of the law of the Lord, write for, busily (or swiftly) be it given to him,

20 unto an hundred talents of silver, also and of gold [or (in) like manner and of gold]; and unto an hundred bushels of wheat, and an hundred vessels of wine, and other things, whatever abound, without taxing.

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