Ezra 6:8

6:8 “I also hereby issue orders as to what you are to do with those elders of the Jews in order to rebuild this temple of God. From the royal treasury, from the taxes of Trans-Euphrates the complete costs are to be given to these men, so that there may be no interruption of the work. ¹ 

Ezra 7:26

7:26 Everyone who does not observe both the law of your God and the law of the king will be completely ²  liable to the appropriate penalty, whether it is death or banishment or confiscation of property or detainment in prison.”

[6:8]  ¹ tn The words “of the work” are not in the Aramaic, but are supplied in the translation for clarity.

[7:26]  ² tn On the meaning of this word see HALOT 1820-21 s.v. אָסְפַּרְנָא; E. Vogt, Lexicon linguae aramaicae, 14.