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JPSThen asked we those elders, and said unto them thus: Who gave you a decree to build this house, and to finish this wall?
ASVThen asked we those elders, and said unto them thus, Who gave you a decree to build this house, and to finish this wall?
DRAAnd we asked those ancients, and said to them thus: Who hath given you authority to build this house, and to repair these walls?
YLTThen we have asked of these elders, thus we have said to them, Who hath made for you a decree this house to build, and this wall to finish?
DrbyThen asked we those elders: thus we said to them, Who gave you orders to build this house and to complete this wall?
RVThen asked we those elders, and said unto them thus, Who gave you a decree to build this house, and to finish this wall?
WbstrThen we asked those elders, and said to them thus, Who commanded you to build this house, and to erect these walls?
KJB-1769Then asked we those elders, and said unto them thus, Who commanded you to build this house, and to make up these walls?
KJB-1611Then asked we those Elders, and said vnto them thus, Who commanded you to build this house, and to make vp these walles? (Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above, apart from capitalisation)
BshpsThen asked we the elders, and saide vnto them as it foloweth: Who commaunded you to builde this house, and to make vp the walles thereof? (Then asked we the elders, and said unto them as it followeth/follows: Who commanded you to build this house, and to make up the walls thereof?)
GnvaThen asked we those Elders, and sayd vnto them thus, Who hath giuen you commandement to buylde this house, and to lay the foundation of these walles? (Then asked we those Elders, and said unto them thus, Who hath/has given you commandment to build this house, and to lay the foundation of these walls? )
CvdlNeuertheles we axed the Elders and sayde vnto them: Who hath comaunded you to buylde this house, and to make vp the walles therof? (Nevertheless we asked the Elders and said unto them: Who hath/has commanded you to build this house, and to make up the walls thereof?)
WyclTherfor we axiden tho elde men, and thus we seiden to hem, Who yaf to you power to bilde this hows, and to restore these wallis? (Therefore we asked those elde men, and thus we said to them, Who gave to you power to build this house, and to restore these wallis?)
LuthWir aber haben die Ältesten gefragt und zu ihnen gesagt also: Wer hat euch befohlen, dies Haus zu bauen und seine Mauern zu machen? (We but have the elders gefragt and to to_them said also: Who has you befohlen, this/these house to bauen and his walls to machen?)
ClVgInterrogavimus ergo senes illos, et ita diximus eis: Quis dedit vobis potestatem ut domum hanc ædificaretis, et muros hos instauraretis? (Interrogavimus therefore senes illos, and ita diximus eis: Who he_gave to_you potestatem as home hanc to_buildtis, and muros hos instauraretis? )
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.
who gave to,you_all decree temple,the this(ms) to,rebuild and,structure,the this(ms) to,finish
This is a quotation within a quotation. That is, the book is quoting from the letter that Tattenai and his associates sent to King Darius, and within that letter, they are quoting what they asked the Jewish elders. It may be helpful to your readers to indicate this by setting off these words within secondary quotation marks or with whatever other punctuation or convention your language uses to indicate a quotation within a quotation.
who gave to,you_all decree temple,the this(ms) to,rebuild and,structure,the this(ms) to,finish
See how you translated this question in 5:3. The phrases build this house and complete this structure refer to the same action, not different actions. The officials say essentially the same thing twice for emphasis. If that would be confusing for your readers, you could say it once and provide emphasis in a different way. Alternate translation: “Who said that you could build a large temple such as this”
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.
