1 Esdras 8:22
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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.
You are also informed that no tribute or any other tax is to be laid on any of the priests or Levites or temple singers or gatekeepers or temple servants or persons employed in this temple, and that no one has authority to impose any tax on them.
You are also informed that no tribute or any other tax is to be laid on any of the priests or Levites or temple singers or gatekeepers or temple servants or persons employed in this temple and that no one has authority to impose any tax on them.
You are also informed that no tribute or any other tax is to be laid on any of the priests or Levites or temple singers or gatekeepers or temple servants or persons employed in this temple, and that no one has authority to impose any tax upon them.
To you forsooth it was said, that to all the priests, and deacons [or Levites], and to (the) holy singers, and servants of the temple, and to (the) scribes of this temple, no tribute, nor any other forfending, (or preventing, or hindering) be borne to them, nor have there any man power to against-cast (or impose) anything to them.
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