⁷ A copy of the letter that Sisinnes the governor of Syria and Phoenicia and Sathrabuzanes and their associates the local rulers in Syria and Phoenicia wrote and sent to Darius:

“To King Darius, greetings.

³⁹ they told Ezra the chief priest and reader to bring the law of Moses that had been given by the Lord God of Israel.^(A)

⁴² Ezra the priest and reader of the law stood on the wooden platform that had been prepared,^(A)

⁴⁹ Then Attharates^[a] said to Ezra the chief priest^[b] and reader and to the Levites who were teaching the multitude and to all,^(A)