<p class="bodytext">&#8220;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<n id="1" /> on it, and his house is to be reduced<n id="2" /> to a rubbish heap<n id="3" /> for this indiscretion.<n id="4" />

May God who makes his name to reside there overthrow any king or nation<n id="1" /> who reaches out<n id="2" /> to cause such change so as to destroy this temple of God in Jerusalem. I, Darius, have given orders. Let them be carried out with precision!&#8221;p>

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;I, King Artaxerxes, hereby issue orders to all the treasurers of<n id="1" /> Trans-Euphrates, that you precisely execute all that Ezra the priestly scribe of the law of the God of heaven may request of you &#8211;

Everything that the God of heaven has required should be precisely done for the temple of the God of heaven. Why should there be wrath<n id="1" /> against the empire of the king and his sons?

I hereby decree<n id="1" /> that any people, nation, or language group that blasphemes<n id="2" /> the god of Shadrach, Meshach, or Abednego will be dismembered and his home reduced to rubble! For there exists no other god who can deliver in this way.&#8221;