1 Esdras 2:16-18

Wycliffe Bible

¹⁶ Forsooth in the time of Artaxerxes, king of Persia, there wrote to him, of these that dwelled in Judea and in Jerusalem, Belemus, and Mithradates, and Tabellius, and Rathymus, Beeltethmus, and Semellius, the scribe, and others dwelling in Samaria, and in other places, they wrote this subject letter to king Artaxerxes. [Forsooth in the time of Artaxerxes, king of Persians, written to him, of these that dwelt in Judea and in Jerusalem, Belemus, and Mithradates, and Tabellius, and Rathymus, Beeltethmus, and Semellius, scribe, and others dwelling in Samaria, and in other places, the underset letter to king Artaxerxes.]

¹⁷ Lord, thy children (or thy servants) Rathymus, and Semellius, the scribe, and other doomsmen of thy court, of things that fall in Celosyria and Phenice (or of things that be done in Greater Syria and Phoenicia).

¹⁸ And now be it know to the lord the king, that (the) Jews, the which went up from you to us, coming into Jerusalem, a city of fleers away, and a full evil city, they build up the ovens of it, and they (re)set the walls, and rear (or raise up) the temple. [And now be it know to the lord the king, for Jews, that went up from you to us, coming into Jerusalem, city again-flown to, and worst, build up the ovens of it, and set the walls, and rear the temple.]