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Ezra 4:4-6
Orthodox Jewish Bible
Ezra 4:4-6
Orthodox Jewish Bible
4 Then the Am HaAretz weakened the hands of the Am Yehudah, and troubled them from building,
5 And hired counselors against them, to frustrate their etza (plan), all the days of Koresh (Cyrus) Melech Paras (Persia), even until the reign of Daryavesh (Darius) Melech Paras (Persia).
6 And in the reign of Achashverosh [Xerxes I 486-465 B.C.E., the husband of Queen Esther], in the beginning of his reign, they wrote unto him a sitnah (accusation, related to the word Satan, Accuser) against the inhabitants of Yehudah and Yerushalayim.
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