Ezra 4:7
The Letter to King Artaxerxes
7In the days of Artaxerxes, Bishlam and aMithredath and Tabeel and the rest of their associates wrote to Artaxerxes king of Persia. The letter was written bin Aramaic and translated. ▼▼Hebrew written in Aramaic and translated in Aramaic, indicating that 4:8–6:18 is in Aramaic; another interpretation is The letter was written in the Aramaic script and set forth in the Aramaic language
Ezra 4:9
9Rehum the commander, Shimshai the scribe, and the rest of their associates, the djudges, the egovernors, the officials, the Persians, the men of Erech, the Babylonians, the men of Susa, that is, the fElamites,
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