25. “You, Ezra, using the wisdom which your God has given you, are to appoint administrators and judges to govern all the people in West Euphrates who live by the Law of your God. You must teach that Law to anyone who does not know it.
26. If anyone disobeys the laws of your God or the laws of the empire, he is to be punished promptly: by death or by exile or by confiscation of his property or by imprisonment.”
27. Ezra said, “Praise the Lord, the God of our ancestors! He has made the emperor willing to honour in this way the Temple of the Lord in Jerusalem.