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Ezra 7:26
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24 Also we inform you that it shall not be lawful to impose tax, tribute, or custom on any of the priests, Levites, singers, gatekeepers, Nethinim, or servants of this house of God.
25 And you, Ezra, according to your God-given wisdom, aset magistrates and judges who may judge all the people who are in the region beyond the River, all such as know the laws of your God; and bteach those who do not know them. 
26 Whoever will not observe the law of your God and the law of the king, let judgment be executed speedily on him, whether it be death, or1 banishment, or confiscation of goods, or imprisonment.  
27 aBlessed1 be the Lord God of our fathers, bwho has put such a thing as this in the king’s heart, to beautify the house of the Lord which is in Jerusalem,  
28 and ahas extended mercy to me before the king and his counselors, and before all the king’s mighty princes. So I was encouraged, as bthe hand of the Lord my God was upon me; and I gathered leading men of Israel to go up with me. 
Verse Comparison: Ezra 7:26

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American Standard Version
And whosoever will not do the law of thy God, and the law of the king, let judgment be executed upon him with all diligence, whether it be unto death, or to banishment, or to confiscation of goods, or to imprisonment.

Amplified® Bible
And whoever will not do the law of your God and the law of the king, let judgment be executed upon him exactly {and} speedily, whether it be unto death or banishment or confiscation of goods or imprisonment.

Contemporary English Version
Everyone who fails to obey God's Law or the king's law will be punished without pity. They will either be executed or put in prison or forced to leave their country, or have all they own taken away.

Darby English Version
And whosoever will not do the law of thy God and the law of the king, let judgment be executed diligently upon him, whether unto death, or to banishment, or to confiscation of goods, or to imprisonment.

Good News Bible
If any disobey the laws of your God or the laws of the empire, they are to be punished promptly: by death or by exile or by confiscation of their property or by imprisonment."

King James Version
And whosoever will not do the law of thy God, and the law of the king, let judgment be executed speedily upon him, whether it be unto death, or to banishment, or to confiscation of goods, or to imprisonment.

New American Standard Bible
"Whoever will not observe the law of your God and the law of the king, let judgment be executed upon him strictly, whether for death or for banishment or for confiscation of goods or for imprisonment."

New International Version
Whoever does not obey the law of your God and the law of the king must surely be punished by death, banishment, confiscation of property, or imprisonment.

New King James Version
Whoever will not observe the law of your God and the law of the king, let judgment be executed speedily on him, whether it be death, or banishment, or confiscation of goods, or imprisonment.

N.A.S.B. in E-Prime
"Whoever will not observe the law of your God and the law of the king, let judgment become executed upon him strictly, whether for death or for banishment or for confiscation of goods or for imprisonment."

Revised Standard Version
Whoever will not obey the law of your God and the law of the king, let judgment be strictly executed upon him, whether for death or for banishment or for confiscation of his goods or for imprisonment."

Young's Literal Translation
and any who doth not do the law of thy God, and the law of the king, speedily is judgment done upon him, whether to death, or to banishment, or to confiscation of riches, and to bonds.'


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