1 Esdras 4:53LXX

Orthodox Bible · LXX · Verse 53 of 63

"and that all they that went from Babylon to build the city should have free liberty, as well they as their posterity, and all the priests that went away."
1 Esdras 4:53

In context

51yea, that there should be yearly given twenty talents to the building of the temple, until the time that it were built;

52and other ten talents yearly, to maintain the burnt offerings upon the altar every day, as they had a commandment to offer seventeen:

53and that all they that went from Babylon to build the city should have free liberty, as well they as their posterity, and all the priests that went away.

54He wrote also concerning the charges, and the priests' vestments wherein they minister;

55and likewise for the charges of the Levites, to be given them until the day that the house were finished, and Jerusalem builded up.

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