wheat even to an hundred cors, and an hundred pieces of wine,
and other things in abundance.

1Esdr 8:21
Let all things be performed after the law of God diligently
unto the most high God, that wrath come not upon the kingdom of
the king and his sons.

1Esdr 8:22
I command you also, that ye require no tax, nor any other
imposition, of any of the priests, or Levites, or holy singers,
or porters, or ministers of the temple, or of any that have
doings in this temple, and that no man have authority to impose
any thing upon them.

1Esdr 8:23
And thou, Esdras, according to the wisdom of God ordain
judges and justices, that they may judge in all Syria and
Phenice all those that know the law of thy God; and those that
know it not thou shalt teach.

1Esdr 8:24
And whosoever shall transgress the law of thy God, and of the
king, shall be punished diligently, whether it be by death, or
other punishment, by penalty of money, or by imprisonment.

1Esdr 8:25
Then said Esdras the scribe, Blessed be the only Lord God of
my fathers, who hath put these things into the heart of the
king, to glorify his house that is in Jerusalem: