Ezra 7:12

7:12 ¹ “Artaxerxes, king of kings, to Ezra the priest, a scribe of the perfect law of the God of heaven:

Ezra 7:21

7:21 “I, King Artaxerxes, hereby issue orders to all the treasurers of ²  Trans-Euphrates, that you precisely execute all that Ezra the priestly scribe of the law of the God of heaven may request of you –

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 ³  liable to the appropriate penalty, whether it is death or banishment or confiscation of property or detainment in prison.”

[7:12]  ¹ sn Ezra 7:12-26 is written in Aramaic rather than Hebrew.

[7:21]  ² tn Aram “who are in.”

[7:26]  ³ tn On the meaning of this word see HALOT 1820-21 s.v. אָסְפַּרְנָא; E. Vogt, Lexicon linguae aramaicae, 14.