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1 Esdras 1:55-58 World English Bible (WEB)

55. And they burned the house of the Lord, and brake down the walls of Jerusalem, and burned the towers thereof with fire:

56. and as for her glorious things, they never ceased till they had brought them all to nothing: and the people that were not slain with the sword he carried to Babylon:

57. and they were servants to him and to his children, till the Persians reigned, to fulfil the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremy:

58. Until the land has enjoyed her Sabbaths, the whole time of her desolation shall she keep Sabbath, to fulfil threescore and ten years.

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