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20 up to one hundred kors[a] of wheat, one hundred baths[b] of wine, and a lot of salt. 21 Let everything be carried out for the Most High God strictly according to God’s Law, so that God’s wrath may not come on the king’s empire and his family. 22 Also no foreign tax or any other fine should be placed on any of the priests, Levites, temple singers, gatekeepers, temple servants, or people working on this temple. No one has authority to impose anything on them.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Esdras 8:20 A kor is equivalent to one hundred gallons dry in volume.
  2. 1 Esdras 8:20 A bath is approximately equivalent to twenty gallons wet in volume.

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