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And he had made himself a great chamber. And previously they had laid the offerings there: the incense, the vessels, the tithes of corn, of wine, and of oil (appointed for the Levites and the singers and the gatekeepers) and the offerings of the priests.

But I was not in Jerusalem during this time. For in the thirty-second year of Artachshashta, king of Babel, I came to the king. And after some days, I asked leave of the king.

And when I had come to Jerusalem, I understood the evil that Eliashib had done for Tobiah, in that he had made himself a chamber in the court of the House of God,

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