While all this was happening, I was not in Jerusalem, because I had returned to King Artaxerxes(A) of Babylon(B) in the thirty-second year of his reign.(C) It was only later that I asked the king for a leave of absence(D)

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But while all this was going on, I was not in Jerusalem, for in the thirty-second year of Artaxerxes(A) king of Babylon I had returned to the king. Some time later I asked his permission

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