⁵ So he let Tobiah live in one of these rooms, where all kinds of things had been stored—the grain offerings, incense, utensils for the temple, as well as the tenth of the grain, wine, and olive oil that had been given for the use of the Levites, singers, and temple guards, and the gifts for the priests.

⁶ This happened in the thirty-second year that Artaxerxes^[a] ruled Babylonia. I was away from Jerusalem at the time, because I was visiting him. Later I received permission from the king ⁷ to return to Jerusalem. Only then did I find out that Eliashib had done this terrible thing of letting Tobiah have a room in the temple.