[a]Rehum the commander and Shimshai the scribe wrote a letter against Jerusalem to King Artaxerxes in this fashion:

[b]From Rehum the commander, Shimshai the scribe, and the rest of their companions—representatives of (A)the Dinaites, the Apharsathchites, the Tarpelites, the people of Persia and Erech and Babylon and [c]Shushan, the Dehavites, the Elamites, 10 (B)and the rest of the nations whom the great and noble Osnapper took captive and settled in the cities of Samaria and the remainder beyond [d]the River—(C)and[e] so forth.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezra 4:8 The original language of Ezra 4:8 through 6:18 is Aramaic.
  2. Ezra 4:9 Lit. Then
  3. Ezra 4:9 Or Susa
  4. Ezra 4:10 The Euphrates
  5. Ezra 4:10 Lit. and now

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