⁵ In ^[a]Shushan the ^[b]citadel there was a certain Jew whose name was Mordecai the son of Jair, the son of Shimei, the son of ^(A)Kish, a Benjamite. ^6 (B)Kish^[c] had been carried away from Jerusalem with the captives who had been captured with ^[d]Jeconiah king of Judah, whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried away.

¹³ So they answered and said before the king, “That Daniel, ^(A)who is ^[a]one of the captives from Judah, ^(B)does not show due regard for you, O king, or for the decree that you have signed, but makes his petition three times a day.”