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Ezra 6:15

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6:15 They finished this temple on the third day of the month Adar, which is the sixth 1  year of the reign of King Darius.

Ezra 6:11

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6:11 “I hereby give orders that if anyone changes this directive a beam is to be pulled out from his house and he is to be raised up and impaled 2  on it, and his house is to be reduced 3  to a rubbish heap 4  for this indiscretion. 5 

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[6:15]  1 sn The sixth year of the reign of Darius would be ca. 516 B.C.

[6:11]  2 sn The practice referred to in v. 11 has been understood in various ways: hanging (cf. 1 Esd 6:32 and KJV); flogging (cf. NEB, NLT); impalement (BDB 1091 s.v. זְקַף; HALOT 1914 s.v. מחא hitpe; cf. NAB, NIV, NRSV). The latter seems the most likely.

[6:11]  3 tn Aram “made.”

[6:11]  4 tn Aram “a dunghill.”

[6:11]  5 tn Aram “for this.”



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