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10 For Ezra had prepared his heart to aseek the Law of the Lord, and to do it, and to bteach statutes and ordinances in Israel.  

The Letter of Artaxerxes to Ezra

11 This is a copy of the letter that King Artaxerxes gave Ezra the priest, the scribe, expert in the words of the commandments of the Lord, and of His statutes to Israel:
12 Artaxerxes, aking of kings,
To Ezra the priest, a scribe of the Law of the God of heaven:
Perfect peace, band so forth. 
13 I issue a decree that all those of the people of Israel and the priests and Levites in my realm, who volunteer to go up to Jerusalem, may go with you.
14 And whereas you are being sent1 by the king and his aseven counselors to inquire concerning Judah and Jerusalem, with regard to the Law of your God which is in your hand; 
15 and whereas you are to carry the silver and gold which the king and his counselors have freely offered to the God of Israel, awhose dwelling is in Jerusalem; 
16 aand whereas all the silver and gold that you may find in all the province of Babylon, along with the freewill offering of the people and the priests, are to be bfreely offered for the house of their God in Jerusalem— 


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