<t /><p class="bodytext">The word of the <sc>Lordsc> came to me in the ninth year, in the tenth month, on the tenth day of the month<n id="1" />:

<t /><p class="bodytext">In the seventh year, in the fifth month, on the tenth of the month,<n id="1" /> some of the elders<n id="2" /> of Israel came to seek<n id="3" /> the <sc>Lordsc>, and they sat down in front of me.

<t /><p class="bodytext">In the twenty-fifth year of our exile, at the beginning of the year, on the tenth day of the month, in the fourteenth year after the city<n id="1" /> was struck down, on this very day,<n id="2" /> the hand<n id="3" /> of the <sc>Lordsc> was on me, and he brought me there.<n id="4" />