⁷ And in the days of ^[a]Artaxerxes, Bishlam, Mithredath, Tabeel, and the rest of his colleagues wrote to Artaxerxes king of Persia; and the ^[b]text of the letter was written in Aramaic and translated ^(A)from Aramaic.

Enemies Write to Darius

⁶ This is the copy of the letter that ^(A)Tattenai, the governor of the province beyond the Euphrates River, and Shethar-bozenai and his colleagues ^(B)the officials, who were beyond the River, sent to Darius the king.