Esdras 7:24

Louis Segond

Nous vous faisons savoir qu'il ne peut être levé ni tribut, ni impôt, ni droit de passage, sur aucun des sacrificateurs, des Lévites, des chantres, des portiers, des Néthiniens, et des serviteurs de cette maison de Dieu.

Parallel Translations

La Bible Ostervald (1996)
De plus, nous vous faisons savoir qu'on ne pourra imposer ni tribut, ni imp�t, ni p�age sur aucun des sacrificateurs, des L�vites, des chantres, des portiers, des N�thiniens et des serviteurs de cette maison de Dieu.

Darby's French Translation
Et nous vous faisons savoir que sur tous les sacrificateurs et les l�vites, chantres, portiers, Nethiniens, et serviteurs de cette maison de Dieu, il ne peut �tre lev� aucun tribut, ni imp�t, ni p�age.

La Bible David Martin (1744)
De plus, nous vous faisons savoir qu'on ne pourra imposer ni taille, ni gabelle, ni p�age sur aucun Sacrificateur, ou L�vite, ou chantre, ou portier, ou N�thinien, ou ministre de cette maison de Dieu.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

touching any: Ezra 7:7, Ezra 2:36-55

Reciprocal: Genesis 47:22 - for the priests 1 Samuel 17:25 - free in Israel 1 Chronicles 9:33 - the singers 1 Chronicles 15:16 - And David Ezra 4:13 - toll Ezra 8:15 - and found Nehemiah 9:37 - it yieldeth Nehemiah 13:14 - house Matthew 22:17 - is

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Also we certify you, that touching any of the priests and Levites, singers, porters, Nethinims, or ministers of this house of God,.... The king had a right and perfect knowledge of the distinct offices and services of those persons, see Ezra 7:7,

it shall not be lawful to impose toll, tribute, or custom, upon them; that they might be the less encumbered with the affairs of life, and be more at leisure to attend divine service, and do it the more readily and freely; it was usual with the Heathens to except ecclesiastics from taxes, tributes, and imposts; so the priests in Egypt w, and the Druids here in Britain x.

w Diodor. Sicul. l. 1. p. 66. x Caesar. Comment. de Bello Gall. l. 6. c. 13.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The decree of Artaxerxes was more favorable to the Jews than those of all previous Persian monarchs. We hear of a similar exemption of ecclesiastics from tribute, only to a less extent, under the Seleucidae.

Ministers - The rare word here used, which in Daniel has the sense of “worshippers,” appears to designate in this place the lowest class of persons employed in the service of the temple.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 24. It shall not be lawful to impose toll — As these persons had no private revenues, it would have been unreasonable to have laid them under taxation.