Scribes as Tax-Exempt Temple Administrators

I would also have the work about the Temple finished, and the porticoes, and if there be anything else that ought to be built. And as for the materials of wood, let them be brought down from Judaea itself, and from the other nations, and out of Lebanon, tax-free; and the same applies to those other necessary materials by which the restoration of the Temple may be even more remarkable. And let all who belong to that nation be governed according to their ancestral laws; and let the Senate, as well as the priests, Temple scribes, and sacred singers be discharged from poll money and the crown tax, and from other taxes also.

Translated byWilliam Whiston, adapted byAaron Samuels.