17 “And now if to the king it seems good, let there be an investigation+ in the king’s house of treasures that is there in Babylon, whether it is so that from Cyrus the king an order+ was put through to rebuild that house of God in Jerusalem; and the decision of the king concerning this let him send to us.”

21 “And by me myself, Ar·ta·xerxʹes the king, an order+ has been put through to all the treasurers+ that are beyond the River,+ that everything that Ezʹra+ the priest, the copyist of the law of the God of the heavens, requests of YOU men it will be done promptly,