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Give us the names of the workers!”

But God was looking after the Jewish leaders. So the governor and his group decided not to make the people stop working on the temple until they could report to Darius and get his advice.

Governor Tattenai, Shethar Bozenai, and their advisors sent a report to Darius,

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They[a] also asked, “What are the names of those who are constructing this building?” But the eye of their God(A) was watching over the elders of the Jews, and they were not stopped until a report could go to Darius and his written reply be received.

This is a copy of the letter that Tattenai, governor of Trans-Euphrates, and Shethar-Bozenai and their associates, the officials of Trans-Euphrates, sent to King Darius.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezra 5:4 See Septuagint; Aramaic We.