# 1 Esdras 1:3

**Apocrypha.** Not part of the 66-book Protestant canon. Catholic and Orthodox churches accept these books as deuterocanonical.

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- Edition: kjv-apocrypha
- Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/apocrypha/1-esdras/1/3
- Book: [1 Esdras](https://apologetics.wiki/apocrypha/1-esdras)
- Chapter: [1 Esdras 1](https://apologetics.wiki/apocrypha/1-esdras/1)
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And he spake unto the Levites, the holy ministers of Israel, that they should hallow themselves unto the Lord, to set the holy ark of the Lord in the house that king Solomon the son of David had built: