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24 We also make known to you that (A)it is not allowed to [a]impose tribute, custom, or toll (B)on any of the priests, Levites, singers, doorkeepers, temple servants, or other servants of this house of God.

25 “And you, Ezra, according to the wisdom of your God which is in your hand, (C)appoint magistrates and judges that they may judge all the people who are in the province beyond the River, even all those who know the laws of your God; and to anyone who does not know the laws, you shall (D)make them known.

26 (E)Whoever will not do the law of your God and the law of the king, let judgment be done to him with all diligence, whether for death or for [b]banishment or for confiscation of goods or for imprisonment.”

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Footnotes

  1. Ezra 7:24 Lit throw on them
  2. Ezra 7:26 Lit rooting out