The words of Neḥ
And in the fourth year of Sovereign Dareyawesh it came to be that the word of יהוה came to Zeḵ
And those who set their seal were: Neḥ
in those days, when Sovereign Aḥ
And I looked in the vision, and it came to be while I was looking, that I was in the citadel of Shushan, which is in the province of Ě
And some of the children of Yisra’ĕ
The runners went out, hastened by the sovereign’s command, and the decree was given out in the citadel of Shushan. The sovereign and Haman then sat down to drink, but the city of Shushan was in confusion.
And it came to be in the month of Nisan, in the twentieth year of Artaḥ
Then all the men of Yehuḏ
Also, from the day I was appointed to be their governor in the land of Yehuḏ