Ezra 6:2

6:2 A scroll was found in the citadel ¹  of Ecbatana which is in the province of Media, and it was inscribed as follows:

“Memorandum:

[6:2]  ¹ 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.