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“Now I free you and release all the Jews from the tributes, from the salt tax, and from the crown levies.
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Verse 29. Salt, of which there were pits in the country. Calmet. 11:35.—Crowns. Antiochus the great had before granted this exemption to the ministers of the temple. Jos. Ant. xii. 3. Calmet.—The Jews, after its ruin, used to present such to their patriarchs. But the Roman emperors claimed them. Grot.
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