Ezra 3:3
3:3 They established the altar on its foundations, even though they were in terror of the local peoples, 1 and they offered burnt offerings on it to the Lord, both the morning and the evening offerings.
Ezra 7:26
7:26 Everyone who does not observe both the law of your God and the law of the king will be completely 2 liable to the appropriate penalty, whether it is death or banishment or confiscation of property or detainment in prison.”
1 tn Heb “the peoples of the lands.”
2 tn On the meaning of this word see HALOT 1820-21 s.v. אָסְפַּרְנָא; E. Vogt, Lexicon linguae aramaicae, 14.