3:8 Now 1 at that time certain 2 Chaldeans came forward and brought malicious accusations against 3 the Jews.
1 tc This expression is absent in Theodotion.
2 tn Aram “men.”
3 tn Aram “ate the pieces of.” This is a rather vivid idiom for slander.
4 tn Heb “to the Lord our God (belong) compassion and forgiveness.”
5 tn Heb “hand.”