Ezra 1:8

1:8 King Cyrus of Persia entrusted ¹  them to ²  Mithredath ³  the treasurer, who counted them out to Sheshbazzar ⁴  the leader of the Judahite exiles. ⁵ 

Ezra 2:63

2:63 The governor ⁶  instructed them not to eat any of the sacred food until there was a priest who could consult ⁷  the Urim and Thummim.

Nehemiah 5:14

5:14 From the day that I was appointed ⁸  governor ⁹  in the land of Judah, that is, from the twentieth year until the thirty-second year of King Artaxerxes – twelve years in all – neither I nor my relatives ¹⁰  ate the food allotted to the governor. ¹¹ 

Nehemiah 8:9

8:9 Then Nehemiah the governor, ¹²  Ezra the priestly scribe, ¹³  and the Levites who were imparting understanding to the people said to all of them, ¹⁴  “This day is holy to the LORD your God. Do not mourn or weep.” For all the people had been weeping when they heard the words of the law.

¹ tn Heb “brought them forth.”

² tn Heb “upon the hand of.”

³ sn A Persian name meaning “gift of Mithras.” See HALOT 656 s.v. מִתְרְדָת.

⁴ sn A Babylonian name with the probable meaning “Shamash protect the father.” See HALOT 1664-65 s.v. שֵׁשְׁבַּצַּר.

⁵ tn Heb “Sheshbazzar the prince to Judah”; TEV, CEV “the governor of Judah.”

⁶ tn The Hebrew word תִּרְשָׁתָא (tirshata’) is an official title of the Persian governor in Judea, perhaps similar in meaning to “excellency” (BDB 1077 s.v.; HALOT 1798 s.v.; W. L. Holladay, Concise Hebrew and Aramaic Lexicon, 395).

⁷ tn Heb “to stand.”

⁸ tc The BHS editors suggest reading צֻוֵּאתִי (tsuvve’ti, “and I was appointed”) rather than the reading of the MT, אֹתִי צִוָּה (tsivvah ’oti, “he appointed me”).

⁹ tc The translation reads with one medieval Hebrew MS פֶּחָה (pekhah, “governor”) rather than פֶּחָם (pekham, “their governor”) of the MT. One would expect the form with pronominal suffix to have a tav (ת) before the suffix.

¹⁰ tn Heb “brothers.”

¹¹ tn Heb “the food of the governor.” Cf. v. 18.

¹² tc The unexpected reference to Nehemiah here has led some scholars to suspect that the phrase “Nehemiah the governor” is a later addition to the text and not original.

¹³ tn Heb “the priest, the scribe.”

¹⁴ tn Heb “the people.” The pronoun has been used in the translation for stylistic reasons, to avoid redundancy.