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And in the days of [a]Artaxerxes wrote Bishlam, Mithredath, Tabeel, and the rest of his companions, unto Artaxerxes king of Persia; and the writing of the letter was written in the [b]Syrian character, and set forth in the [c]Syrian tongue. [d]Rehum the chancellor and Shimshai the scribe wrote a letter against Jerusalem to Artaxerxes the king in this sort: then wrote Rehum the chancellor, and Shimshai the scribe, and the rest of their companions, the Dinaites, and the Apharsathchites, the Tarpelites, the Apharsites, the Archevites, the Babylonians, the Shushanchites, the Dehaites, the Elamites,

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  1. Ezra 4:7 Hebrew Artahshashta.
  2. Ezra 4:7 Or, Aramaic
  3. Ezra 4:7 Or, Aramaic
  4. Ezra 4:8 4:8–6:18 is in Aramaic.