ECB(i)
12 Now be it known to the sovereign, that the Yah Hudiym who ascended from you to us come to Yeru Shalem, and are building the rebellious and wicked city: and finishing the walls thereof and joining the foundations.
13 Now be it known to the sovereign, that, if this city is built and the walls finished, then they give not tribute, excise and custom; and thus damage the revenue of the sovereigns.
14 Now, because we are salted with the salt of the manse; and it is not convenient for us to see the nakedness of the sovereign; so we send and make known to the sovereign;
15 to search the scroll of the records of your fathers: and find in the scroll of the records and know that this city is a rebellious city and damaging to sovereigns and jurisdictions; and that they have rebels in their midst from eternal days: for which cause this city is desolated:
16 we have the sovereign know that if this city is built and the walls finished, that you have no portion on this side the river.
17 Then the sovereign sends a decision to Rechum the master of decrees and Shimshay the scribe and to the survivors of their colleagues who settle in Shomeron, and to the survivors beyond the river, Shalom and et cetera:
18 The epistle you send us has been distinctly called out in front of me:
19 and I set a decree and search: and find that this city, from eternal days, lifts itself against sovereigns: and rebellion and sedition are made therein:
20 and mighty sovereigns over Yeru Shalem - rulers over all beyond the river; and tribute, excise and custom is given them.
21 Now set a decree to have these men stop: and that this city not be built, until another decree is set from me.
22 Be enlightened that you not err about this: why increase the damage to the damage of the sovereigns?
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THE SERVICE OF THE HOUSE OF YAH VEH STOPPED
Then when the transcript of the epistle of sovereign Artach Shashta is called out in front of Rechum and Shimshay the scribe and their colleagues, they go in haste to Yeru Shalem to the Yah Hudiym and stop them by arm and valour: 24 then the service of the house of Elah at Yeru Shalem stops - stops to the second year of the sovereigndom of Daryavesh sovereign of Persia.
THE SERVICE OF THE HOUSE OF YAH VEH STOPPED
Then when the transcript of the epistle of sovereign Artach Shashta is called out in front of Rechum and Shimshay the scribe and their colleagues, they go in haste to Yeru Shalem to the Yah Hudiym and stop them by arm and valour: 24 then the service of the house of Elah at Yeru Shalem stops - stops to the second year of the sovereigndom of Daryavesh sovereign of Persia.