Ezra 5:9-11

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

⁹ And we asked those ancients, and said to them thus: Who hath given you authority to build this house, and to repair these walls?

¹⁰ We asked also of them their names, that we might give thee notice: and we have written the names of the men that are the chief among them.

¹¹ And they answered us in these words, saying: We are the servants of the God of heaven and earth, and we are building a temple that was built these many years ago, and which a great king of Israel built and set up.