ders thereof: and
let the tenths, and tributes be for itself.

10:32. I yield up also the power of the castle that is in Jerusalem, and
I give it to the high priest, to place therein such men as he shall
choose, to keep it.

10:33. And every soul of the Jews that hath been carried captive from
the land of Juda in all my kingdom, I set at liberty freely, that all be
discharged from tributes, even of their cattle.

10:34. And I will that all the feasts, and the sabbaths, and the new
moons, and the days appointed, and three days before the solemn day, and
three days after the solemn day, be all days of immunity and freedom,
for all the Jews that are in my kingdom:

10:35. And no man shall have power to do any thing against them, or to
molest any of them, in any cause.

10:36. And let there be enrolled in the king's army to the number of
thirty thousand of the Jews: and allowance shall be made them, as is due
to all the king's forces and certain of them shall be appointed to be in
the fortresses of the great king:

10:37. And some of them shall be set over the affairs of the kingdom,
that are of trust, and let the governors be taken from among themselves,
and let them walk in their own laws, as the king hath commanded in the
land of Juda.

10:38. And the three cities that are added to Judea, out of the country
of Samaria, let them be accounted with Judea: that they may be under
one, and obey no other authority but that of the high priest:

10:39. Ptolemais and the confines thereof, I give as a free gift to the
holy places that are in Jerusalem, for the necessary charges of the holy
things.

10:40. And I give every year fifteen thousand sickles of silver out of
the king's accounts, of what belongs to me:

10:41. And all that is above, which they that were over the affairs the
years before, had not paid, from this time they shall give it to the
works of the house.

10:42. Moreover, the five thousand sickles of silver, which they
received from the account of the holy places, every year, shall also
belong to the priests that execute the ministry.

10:43. And whosoever shall flee into the temple that is in Jerusalem,
and in all the borders thereof, being indebted to the king for any
matter, let them be set at liberty, and all that they have in my
kingdom, let them have it free.

10:44. For the building also, or repairing the works of the holy places,
the charges shall be given out of the king's revenues:

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