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Ezra 6:1-2
New English Translation

Darius Issues a Decree

6 So Darius the king issued orders, and they searched in the archives[a] of the treasury which were deposited there in Babylon. 2 A scroll was found in the citadel[b] of Ecbatana which is in the province of Media, and it was inscribed as follows:

“Memorandum:

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Footnotes

  1. Ezra 6:1 tn Aram “the house of the archives.”
  2. Ezra 6:2 tc The translation reads בִירְתָא (birtaʾ, citadel”) rather than the reading בְּבִירְתָא (beviretaʾ, “in the citadel”) found in the MT. The MT probably experienced dittography here.
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