And in the days of [a]Artaxerxes, Bishlam, Mithredath, Tabeel, and the rest of his colleagues wrote to Artaxerxes king of Persia; and the [b]text of the letter was written in Aramaic and translated (A)from Aramaic.

The Letter to King Artaxerxes

[c]Rehum the commander and Shimshai the scribe wrote a letter against Jerusalem to King Artaxerxes, as follows— [d]Rehum the commander, Shimshai the scribe, and (B)the rest of their colleagues, the judges and (C)the lesser governors, the officials, the secretaries, the men of Erech, the Babylonians, the men of Susa, that is, the Elamites,

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Footnotes

  1. Ezra 4:7 Heb Artah-shashta
  2. Ezra 4:7 Lit writing
  3. Ezra 4:8 Chs 4:8-6:18 are in Aram
  4. Ezra 4:9 Uncertain, MT Then Rehum

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