1 Esdras 8:21-31

1. 21 Let all things be performed after the law of God diligently unto the most high God, that wrath come not upon the kingdom of the king and his sons.

2. 22 I command you also, that ye require no tax, nor any other imposition, of any of the priests, or Levites, or holy singers, or porters, or ministers of the temple, or of any that have doings in this temple, and that no man have authority to impose any thing upon them.

3. 23 And thou, Esdras, according to the wisdom of God ordain judges and justices, that they may judge in all Syria and Phenice all those that know the law of thy God; and those that know it not thou shalt teach.

4. 24 And whosoever shall transgress the law of thy God, and of the king, shall be punished diligently, whether it be by death, or other punishment, by penalty of money, or by imprisonment.

5. 25 Then said Esdras the scribe, Blessed be the only Lord God of my fathers, who hath put these things into the heart of the king, to glorify his house that is in Jerusalem:

6. 26 And hath honoured me in the sight of the king, and his counsellors, and all his friends and nobles.

7. 27 Therefore was I encouraged by the help of the Lord my God, and gathered together men of Israel to go up with me.

8. 28 And these are the chief according to their families and several dignities, that went up with me from Babylon in the reign of king Artexerxes:

9. 29 Of the sons of Phinees, Gerson: of the sons of Ithamar, Gamael: of the sons of David, Lettus the son of Sechenias:

10. 30 Of the sons of Pharez, Zacharias; and with him were counted an hundred and fifty men:

11. 31 Of the sons of Pahath Moab, Eliaonias, the son of Zaraias, and with him two hundred men:

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