# 1 Esdras 8:8

**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/8/8
- Book: [1 Esdras](https://apologetics.wiki/apocrypha/1-esdras)
- Chapter: [1 Esdras 8](https://apologetics.wiki/apocrypha/1-esdras/8)
- Background: https://apologetics.wiki/apocrypha/1-esdras#background-and-history
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Now the copy of the commission, which was written from Artexerxes the king, and came to Esdras the priest and reader of the law of the Lord, is this that followeth;