1 Esdras 6:29-31

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²⁹ and likewise wheat and salt and wine and oil, regularly every year, without quibbling, for daily use as the priests in Jerusalem may indicate, ³⁰ in order that libations may be made to the Most High God for the king and his children and prayers be offered for their lives.”^(A)

³¹ He commanded that if anyone should transgress or nullify any of the things herein written,^[a] a beam should be taken out of the house of the perpetrator, who then should be impaled upon it and all property forfeited to the king.