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Key: khaki:verbs.
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BrLXXῬήμασιν ἀπέστειλαν πρὸς αὐτόν· καὶ τάδε γέγραπται ἐν αὐτῷ· (Ɽaʸmasin apesteilan pros auton; kai tade gegraptai en autōi; )
BrTrThey sent an account to him, and thus it was written in it: ¶ All peace to king Darius.
ULTThey sent a report to him and thus was written within it: ¶ “To Darius the king: All peace.
USTWhen they sent the report to him, this is what they wrote in it: ¶ “King Darius, we hope everything is going well for you.
BSBThe report they sent him read as follows: ¶ To King Darius: ¶ All peace.
KJB-1611[fn]They sent a letter vnto him, wherein was written thus: Unto Darius the king, all peace. (Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above, apart from punctuation and footnotes)
BshpsAnd the matter that they sent vnto him, was written thus within the letter: Unto Darius the king, all peace. (And the matter that they sent unto him, was written thus within the letter: Unto Darius the king, all peace.)
GnvaThey sent a letter vnto him, wherein it was written thus, VNTO DARIVS the king, all peace. (They sent a letter unto him, wherein it was written thus, VNTO DARIVS the king, all peace. )
CvdlAnd these are the wordes that they sent vnto him: Vnto Darius the kynge, all peace. (And these are the words that they sent unto him: Unto Darius the king, all peace.)
WyclThe word which thei senten to hym was writun thus; Al pees be to the kyng Darius. (The word which they sent to him was written thus; Al peace be to the king Darius.)
LuthUnd die Worte, die sie zu ihm sandten, lauten also: Dem Könige Dario allen Frieden! (And the Worte, the they/she/them to him sent, lauten also: Dem kings/king Dario all Frieden!)
ClVgSermo, quem miserant ei, sic scriptus erat: Dario regi pax omnis. (Sermo, which miserant ei, so scriptus was: Dario regi pax omnis. )
5:6-17 Ezra includes a copy in Aramaic of Tattenai’s letter to King Darius. Unlike the letter of 4:11-16, this letter was a straightforward inquiry into the validity of the Jews’ activity.
Here the book begins to quote the letter that Tattenai and his associates sent to King Darius. It may be helpful to your readers to indicate this with an opening quotation mark or with whatever other punctuation or convention your language uses to indicate the beginning of a quotation.
לְדָרְיָ֥וֶשׁ
to,Darius
Darius is the name of a man. See how you translated it in 4:5.
שְׁלָמָ֥א כֹֽלָּא
peace,the all,the
As in 4:17, this is a conventional greeting or good wish that senders at this time often included at the beginning of a letter. If your language has a similar expression that it uses for the same purpose, you can use it here. Alternate translation: “Greetings” or “We hope all is well with you”
The Temple of the Lord in Jerusalem, where all Israelite males were commanded to offer sacrifices to the Lord (Exodus 23:14-19; Deuteronomy 16:16-17), underwent several stages of reconstruction and development over hundreds of years. The first Temple was built by King Solomon to replace the aging Tabernacle, and it was constructed on a threshing floor on high ground on the north side of the city (2 Samuel 24; 1 Chronicles 21). Hundreds of years later King Hezekiah expanded the platform surrounding the Temple. When Jerusalem fell to the Babylonians in 586 B.C., the Temple was completely destroyed (2 Kings 25:1-21; 2 Chronicles 36:17-21; Jeremiah 39:1-10; 52:1-30). It was rebuilt in 515 B.C. after a group of Jews returned to Judea from exile in Babylon (Ezra 1:5-6:15; Nehemiah 7:5-65). Herod the Great completely rebuilt and expanded the Temple once again around 20 B.C., making it one of the largest temples in the Roman world. Jesus’ first believers often met together in Solomon’s Colonnade, a columned porch that encircled the Temple Mount, perhaps carrying on a tradition started by Jesus himself (John 10:23; Acts 3:11; 5:12). But Herod’s Temple did not last long: After many Jews revolted against Rome, the Romans eventually recaptured Jerusalem and destroyed the Temple in A.D. 70.
