 Rabbi Jose bar Haninah reasoned that the words, "And the Lord your God will bring you into the land that your fathers possessed, and you shall possess it," in showed that the Jews’ possession of the land in the time of Ezra was comparable to their possession of it in the time of Joshua.And thus just as Jews in the time of Joshua were obliged to tithe, so Jews in the time of Ezra were obliged to tithe.And the Gemara interpreted the words, "He will do you good, and make you greater than you fathers," in to teach that the Jews of the time of Ezra were still able to enter the land of Israel as their ancestors had, even though the Jews of the time of Ezra bore the yoke of foreign government on their shoulders and their ancestors had not.