⁷ And in the days of ^[a]Artaxerxes, Bishlam, Mithredath, Tabeel, and the rest of his colleagues wrote to Artaxerxes king of Persia; and the ^[b]text of the letter was written in Aramaic and translated ^(A)from Aramaic.

¹¹ Then Eliakim and Shebna and Joah said to Rabshakeh, “Speak now to your servants in ^(A)Aramaic, for we ^[a]understand it; and do not speak with us in ^[b](B)Judean in the hearing of the people who are on the wall.”