THE HOLY BIBLE Douay-Rheims

First Book of Esdras (Author Esdras)

4:23Now the copy of the edict of king Artaxerxes was read before Reum Beelteem, and Samsai the scribe, and their counsellors: and they went up in haste to Jerusalem to the Jews, and hindered them with arm and power.



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