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Furthermore I will that all the feasts, and sabbaths, and new moons, and solemn days, and the
three days before the feast, and the three days after the feast shall be all of immunity and freedom
for all the Jews in my realm.
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Also no man shall have authority to meddle with or to molest any of them in any matter.
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I will further, that there be enrolled among the king's forces about thirty thousand men of the
Jews, unto whom pay shall be given, as belongeth to all king's forces.
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And of them some shall be placed in the king's strong holds, of whom also some shall be set
over the affairs of the kingdom, which are of trust: and I will that their overseers and governors be
of themselves, and that they live after their own laws, even as the king hath commanded in the land
of Judea.
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And concerning the three governments that are added to Judea from the country of Samaria,
let them be joined with Judea, that they may be reckoned to be under one, nor bound to obey other
authority than the high priest's.
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As for Ptolemais, and the land pertaining thereto, I give it as a free gift to the sanctuary at
Jerusalem for the necessary expences of the sanctuary.
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Moreover I give every year fifteen thousand shekels of silver out of the king's accounts from
the places appertaining.
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And all the overplus, which the officers payed not in as in former time, from henceforth shall
be given toward the works of the temple.
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And beside this, the five thousand shekels of silver, which they took from the uses of the
temple out of the accounts year by year, even those things shall be released, because they appertain
to the priests that minister.
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And whosoever they be that flee unto the temple at Jerusalem, or be within the liberties hereof,
being indebted unto the king, or for any other matter, let them be at liberty, and all that they have
in my realm.
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For the building also and repairing of the works of the sanctuary expences shall be given of
the king's accounts.
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Yea, and for the building of the walls of Jerusalem, and the fortifying thereof round about,
expences shall be given out of the king's accounts, as also for the building of the walls in Judea.
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Now when Jonathan and the people heard these words, they gave no credit unto them, nor
received them, because they remembered the great evil that he had done in Israel; for he had afflicted
them very sore.
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But with Alexander they were well pleased, because he was the first that entreated of true
peace with them, and they were confederate with him always.
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Then gathered king Alexander great forces, and camped over against Demetrius.
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And after the two kings had joined battle, Demetrius' host fled: but Alexander followed after
him, and prevailed against them.
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