Thenas soonas the copyof KingArtaxerxes'documentwas readbeforeRehumand Shimshaithe scribeand their colleagues,they wentin hasteto Jerusalemto the Jewsand stoppedthem by forceof arms.
[Then] the kingsentan answerto Rehumthe commander,to Shimshaithe scribe,and to the restof their colleagueswholivein Samariaand in the restof [the provinces] beyondthe River:"Peace.And now
"Bewareof being negligentin carryingout this[matter]; whyshould damageincreaseto the detrimentof the kings?"
Thenworkon the houseof Godin Jerusalemceased,and it was stoppeduntilthe secondyearof the reignof Dariuskingof Persia.
And in the daysof Artaxerxes,Bishlam,Mithredath,Tabeeland the restof his colleagueswroteto Artaxerxeskingof Persia;and the textof the letterwas writtenin Aramaicand translated[from] Aramaic.
For they cannotsleepunlessthey doevil;And they are robbedof sleepunlessthey make [someone] stumble.
Woeto those who schemeiniquity,Who workout evilon their beds!When morningcomes, they doit, For it is in the powerof their hands.
"THEIR FEETARE SWIFTTO SHEDBLOOD,
