47. Then Darius the king stood up, and kissed him, and wrote letters for him to all the treasurers and governors and captains and satraps, that they should safely bring on their way both him, and all those that should go up with him to build Jerusalem.
48. He wrote letters also to all the governors that were in Coelesyria and Phoenicia, and to them in Libanus, that they should bring cedar wood from Libanus to Jerusalem, and that they should build the city with him.
49. Moreover he wrote for all the Jews that should go out of his realm up into Jewry, concerning their freedom, that no officer, no governor, no satrap, nor treasurer, should forcibly enter into their doors;
50. and that all the country which they occupied should be free to them without tribute; and that the Edomites should give over the villages of the Jews which then they held:
51. and that there should be yearly given twenty talents to the building of the temple, until the time that it were built;
52. and other ten talents yearly, for burnt offerings to be presented upon the altar every day, as they had a commandment to offer seventeen:
53. and that all they that should come from Babylonia to build the city should have their freedom, as well they as their posterity, and all the priests that came.
54. He wrote also to give them their charges, and the priests’ vestments wherein they minister;
55. and for the Levites he wrote that their charges should be given them until the day that the house were finished, and Jerusalem builded up.
56. And he commanded to give to all that kept the city lands and wages.
57. He sent away also all the vessels from Babylon, that Cyrus had set apart; and all that Cyrus had given in commandment, the same charged he also to be done, and sent to Jerusalem.
58. Now when this young man was gone forth, he lifted up his face to heaven toward Jerusalem, and praised the King of heaven,
59. and said, From you comes victory, from you comes wisdom, and your is the glory, and I am your servant.
60. Blessed are you, who have given me wisdom: and to you I give thanks, O Lord of our fathers.
61. And so he took the letters, and went out, and came to Babylon, and told it all his brethren.
62. And they praised the God of their fathers, because he had given them freedom and liberty