1 Esdras 4:51-53

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⁵¹ that twenty talents a year should be given for the building of the temple until it was completed ⁵² and an additional ten talents a year for burnt offerings to be offered on the altar every day, in accordance with the commandment to make seventeen offerings;^{(A) 53} and that all who came from Babylonia to build the city should have their freedom, they and their children and all the priests who came.