1 Esdras 5:70–71
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70But Zerubbabel and Jeshua and the heads of the fathers’ houses in Israel said to them, “You have nothing to do with us in building the house for the Lord our God, 71for we alone will build it for the Lord of Israel, as Cyrus the king of the Persians has commanded us.”
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