28. We will grant you many exemptions and will bestow gifts on you.
29. “I now free you and exempt all the Jews from the tribute, the salt tax, and the crown levies.
30. Instead of collecting the third of the grain and the half of the fruit of the trees that should be my share, I renounce the right from this day forward. Neither now nor in the future will I collect them from the land of Judah or from the three districts annexed from Samaria.
31. Let Jerusalem and her territory, her tithes and her tolls, be sacred and free from tax.
32. I also yield my authority over the citadel in Jerusalem, and I transfer it to the high priest, that he may put in it such men as he shall choose to guard it.
33. Every Jew who has been carried into captivity from the land of Judah into any part of my kingdom I set at liberty without ransom; and let all their taxes, even those on their cattle, be canceled.