Ezra 5:7

5:7 The report they sent to him was written as follows: ¹ 

“To King Darius: All greetings! ² 

Ezra 5:5

5:5 But God was watching over ³  the elders of Judah, and they were not stopped ⁴  until a report could be dispatched ⁵  to Darius and a letter could be sent back concerning this.

Ezra 10:16

10:16 So the exiles proceeded accordingly. Ezra the priest separated out ⁶  by name men who were leaders in their family groups. ⁷  They sat down to consider this matter on the first day of the tenth month,

¹ tn Aram “and it was written in its midst.”

² tn Aram “all peace.”

³ tn Aram “the eye of their God was on.” The idiom describes the attentive care that one exercises in behalf of the object of his concern.

⁴ tn Aram “they did not stop them.”

⁵ tn Aram “[could] go.” On this form see F. Rosenthal, Grammar, 58, §169.

⁵ tc The translation reads the Hiphil singular וַיַּבְדֵּל לוֹ (vayyavdel lo, “separated for himself”) rather than the Niphal plural וַיִּבָּדְלוּ (vayyibbadÿlu, “were separated”) of the MT.

⁶ tn Heb “the heads of the fathers, to the house of their fathers, and all of them by name.”