1 Maccabees 10:31

1 Maccabees 10:31 Context

²⁹And now I doe free you, and for your sake I release all the Iewes from tributes, and from the customes of salt, and from crowne taxes, ³⁰And frō that which appertaineth vnto me to receiue for the third part of the seed, and the halfe of the fruit of the trees, I release it from this day forth, so that they shall not be taken of the land of Iudea, nor of the three gouernments which are added thereunto out of the country of Samaria and Galile, from this day forth for euermore. ³¹Let Ierusalem also bee holy and free, with the borders thereof, both from tenths and tributes. ³²And as for the towre which is at Ierusalem, I yeeld vp my authoritie ouer it, and giue it to the high Priest, that he may set in it such men as he shall choose to keepe it. ³³Moreouer I freely set at libertie euery one of the Iewes that were carried captiues out of the land of Iudea, into any part of my kingdome, and I will that all my officers remit the tributes, euen of their cattell.

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