¹³ Then the commander stood and called out in Hebrew,^(A) “Hear the words of the great king, the king of Assyria!^(B)

⁷ And in the days of Artaxerxes^(A) king of Persia, Bishlam, Mithredath, Tabeel and the rest of his associates wrote a letter to Artaxerxes. The letter was written in Aramaic script and in the Aramaic^(B) language.^[a][b]