Permission to Jews to return with Ezra to Jerusalem.

I make a decree The same phrase as in Ezra 4:19; Ezra 6:8; Ezra 6:11.

all they of the people of Israel Cf. Cyrus's decree Ezra 1:3 -Whosoever there is among all his people". Here, by the side of -the priests and Levites", the expression, as in Ezra 7:27, should be compared with Ezra 2:2.

of his priests R.V. their priests, i.e. the priests of the people.

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