1 Esdras 2:18
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So we now advise you, Master and King, that if this city is rebuilt and if its walls are erected, you will no longer have secure lines of access to Coele-Syria and Phoenicia.
Let it now be known to our lord the king that the Jews who came up from you to us have gone to Jerusalem and are building that rebellious and wicked city, repairing its market-places and walls and laying the foundations for a temple.
Now if this city is built and the walls finished, they will not only refuse to pay tribute but will even resist kings. Since the building of the temple is now going on, we think it best not to neglect such a matter but to speak to our lord the king in order that, if it seems good to you, search may be made in the records of your ancestors.
Now be it known to our lord the king that the Jews who came up from you to us have gone to Jerusalem and are building that rebellious and wicked city, repairing its market places and walls and laying the foundations for a temple.
And now be it know to the lord the king, that (the) Jews, the which went up from you to us, coming into Jerusalem, a city of fleers away, and a full evil city, they build up the ovens of it, and they (re)set the walls, and rear (or raise up) the temple. [And now be it know to the lord the king, for Jews, that went up from you to us, coming into Jerusalem, city again-flown to, and worst, build up the ovens of it, and set the walls, and rear the temple.]
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