Nehemiah 2:8

2:8 and a letter for Asaph the keeper of the king’s nature preserve, ¹  so that he will give me timber for beams for the gates of the fortress adjacent to the temple and for the city wall ²  and for the house to which I go.” So the king granted me these requests, ³  for the good hand of my God was on me.

Nehemiah 7:5

7:5 My God placed it on my heart to gather the leaders, ⁴  the officials, and the ordinary people so they could be enrolled on the basis of genealogy. I found the genealogical records ⁵  of those who had formerly returned. Here is what I found written in that record: ⁶ 

[2:8]  ¹ tn Or “forest.” So HALOT 963 s.v. פַּרְדֵּס 2.

[2:8]  ² tc One medieval Hebrew MS, the Syriac Peshitta, Vulgate, and the Arabic read here the plural וּלְחוֹמוֹת (ulÿkhomot, “walls”) against the singular וּלְחוֹמַת (ulÿkhomat) in the MT. The plural holem vav (וֹ) might have dropped out due to dittography or the plural form might have been written defectively.

[2:8]  ³ tn The Hebrew text does not include the expression “these requests,” but it is implied.

[7:5]  ⁴ tn Heb “nobles”; NCV “important men.”

[7:5]  ⁵ tn Heb “the book of genealogy.”

[7:5]  ⁶ tn Heb “in it”; the referent (the genealogical record) has been specified in the translation for clarity.