38. And the three cities that are added to Judea, out of the country of Samaria, let them be accounted with Judea: that they may be under one, and obey no other authority but that of the high priest:
39. Ptolemais, and the confines thereof, I give as a free gift to the holy places, that are in Jerusalem, for the necessary charges of the holy things.
40. And I give every year fifteen thousand sicles of silver out of the king's accounts, of what belongs to me:
41. And all that is above, which they that were over the affairs the years before, had not paid, from this time they shall give it to the works of the house.