1 Esdras 4:49
Source: Septuagint
49Moreover he wrote for all the Jews that went out of his realm up into Jewry, concerning their freedom, that no officer, no ruler, no lieutenant, nor treasurer, should forcibly enter into their doors;
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47Then Darius the king stood up, and kissed him, and wrote letters for him unto all the treasurers and lieutenants and captains and governors, that they should safely convey on their way both him, and all those that go up with him to build Jerusalem.
48He wrote letters also unto the lieutenants that were in Coelesyria and Phoenicia, and unto them in Lebanon, that they should bring cedar wood from Lebanon unto Jerusalem, and that they should build the city with him.
— 1 Esdras 4:49 —
50and that all the country which they hold should be free without tribute; and that the Idumeans should give over the villages of the Jews which then they held:
51yea, that there should be yearly given twenty talents to the building of the temple, until the time that it were built;