1 Esdras 6:11-13

Wycliffe Bible

¹¹ Then we asked the elder men, saying, Who suffered you (or who allowed you) to build this house, and to build [or (to) found] these works?

¹² Therefore forsooth we asked them, (so) that we might make known to thee the men, and the provosts, or reeves; and we asked them the writing of the names of the masters of the work.

¹³ And they answered to us, saying, We be servants of the Lord, that made both heaven and earth [or that made heaven and earth];