Ezra 6:1-2

Darius Issues a Decree

6:1 So Darius the king issued orders, and they searched in the archives ¹  of the treasury which were deposited there in Babylon. 6:2 A scroll was found in the citadel ²  of Ecbatana which is in the province of Media, and it was inscribed as follows:

“Memorandum:

[6:1]  ¹ tn Aram “the house of the archives.”

[6:2]  ² tc The translation reads בִירְתָא (birta’, citadel”) rather than the reading בְּבִירְתָא (bÿvireta’, “in the citadel”) found in the MT. The MT probably experienced dittography here.