Ezra 4:7
4:7 And during the reign
of Artaxerxes, Bishlam,
Mithredath, Tabeel, and the rest of their colleagues
wrote to King Artaxerxes
of Persia. This letter
was first written in Aramaic but then translated.
[Aramaic:]
Isaiah 36:11-12
36:11 Eliakim, Shebna, and Joah said to the chief adviser, “Speak to your servants in Aramaic, for we understand it. Don’t speak with us in the Judahite dialect in the hearing of the people who are on the wall.”
36:12 But the chief adviser said, “My master did not send me to speak these words only to your master and to you. His message is also for the men who sit on the wall, for they will eat their own excrement and drink their own urine along with you!”
Daniel 2:4
2:4 The wise men replied to the king: [What follows is in Aramaic
] “O king, live forever! Tell your servants the dream, and we will disclose its
interpretation.”