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Ezra 1:2
New American Bible (Revised Edition)

2 “Thus says Cyrus, king of Persia: ‘All the kingdoms of the earth the Lord, the God of heaven,[a] has given to me, and he has charged me to build him a house in Jerusalem, which is in Judah.

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  1. 1:2 The God of heaven: this title, used as in 7:12, 21, 23, corresponds to a title of the Zoroastrian supreme deity Ahura Mazda, though it is not certain that Cyrus was a Zoroastrian.
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