OLD TESTAMENT

Ezra 7:25

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You, Ezra, according to the wisdom of your God that is in your hand, appoint magistrates and judges who may judge all the people who are beyond the River, who all know the laws of your God; and teach him who doesn’t know them.

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Verse 25. River. 3 Esd. “In all Syria and Phenicia.” Bible.—Hitherto, it seems, the royal judges had decided all affairs of consequence, which required any public chastisement.

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