The King James Version Bible

1 Esdras 4:51-54

  1. Yea, that there should be yearly given twenty talents to the building of the temple, until the time that it were built;

  2. And other ten talents yearly, to maintain the burnt offerings upon the altar every day, as they had a commandment to offer seventeen:

  3. And that all they that went from Babylon to build the city should have free liberty, as well they as their posterity, and all the priests that went away.

  4. He wrote also concerning. the charges, and the priests' vestments wherein they minister;