1 Esdras 2:19–21
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Now if this city be builded and the walls thereof be finished, they will not only refuse to give tribute, but will even stand up against kings.
And forasmuch as the things pertaining to the temple are now in hand, we think it meet not to neglect such a matter, but to speak unto our lord the king, to the intent that, if it be thy pleasure, search may be made in the books of thy fathers:
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