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We also inform you that ^(t)it is not allowed to ^[k]impose tax, tribute or toll ^(u)on any of the priests, Levites, singers, doorkeepers, Nethinim or servants of this house of God.

"You, Ezra, according to the wisdom of your God which is in your hand, ^(v)appoint magistrates and judges that they may judge all the people who are in the province beyond the River, even all those who know the laws of your God; and you may ^(w)teach anyone who is ignorant of them.

^(x)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 ^[l]banishment or for confiscation of goods or for imprisonment."