6:3 So I sent messengers to them saying, “I am engaged in 3 an important work, and I am unable to come down. Why should the work come to a halt when I leave it to come down to you?”
1 tn The first words of v. 17, “who were rebuilding the wall,” should be taken with the latter part of v. 16.
2 tn Heb “were carrying loads.” The LXX reads ἐν ὅπλοις (en hoplois, “with weapons”).
3 tn Heb “[am] doing.”