The king sent word to Rehum, B’el T’em, and to Shimshai, the scribe, and to others that were in the counsel of them, to the dwellers of Samaria, and to others beyond the flood, and said, Health and peace.
This is the exemplar of the epistle, which Tatnai, duke of the country beyond the flood, and Shetharboznai, and his counsellors, Apharsachites, which were beyond the flood, sent to king Darius.
Be it known to the king, that we went to the province of Judea, to the house of [the] great God, which is builded with stone unpolished, and wood be set in the walls thereof, and that work is builded diligently, and increaseth in the hands of them.