⁹ Then we asked those elders and said to them thus, ‘Who issued you a decree to rebuild this house and to complete this structure?’

¹⁰ And we also asked them their names in order to make known to you, and that we might write down the names of the men who were at their head.

‘We are the servants of the God of heaven and earth, and are rebuilding the house that was built many years ago, ^(A)which a great king of Israel built and completed.