Ezr 4:7-10 | NASB2020 | STEP | And in the days of Artaxerxes , Bishlam , Mithredath , Tabeel , and the rest of his colleagues wrote to Artaxerxes king of Persia ; and the text of the letter was written in Aramaic and translated from Aramaic .

Ezra 4:7-10

7 And in the days of ^{▼▼Heb Artah-shashta}Artaxerxes, Bishlam, Mithredath, Tabeel, and the rest of his colleagues wrote to Artaxerxes king of Persia; and the ^{▼▼Lit writing}text of the letter was written in Aramaic and translated ^cfrom Aramaic.

The Letter to King Artaxerxes

8 ^{▼▼Chs 4:8-6:18 are in Aram}Rehum the commander and Shimshai the scribe wrote a letter against Jerusalem to King Artaxerxes, as follows-- 9 ^{▼▼Uncertain, MT Then Rehum}Rehum the commander, Shimshai the scribe, and ^fthe rest of their colleagues, the judges and ^gthe lesser governors, the officials, the secretaries, the men of Erech, the Babylonians, the men of Susa, that is, the Elamites, 10 and the rest of the nations which the great and honorable ^{▼▼I.e., prob. Ashurbanipal}Osnappar deported and settled in the city of Samaria, and in the rest of the region beyond the Euphrates River. ⁱAnd now