Ezra 4:16

4:16 We therefore are informing the king that if this city is rebuilt and its walls are completed, you will not retain control ¹  of this portion of Trans-Euphrates.”

Ezra 5:16

5:16 Then this Sheshbazzar went and laid the foundations of the temple of God in Jerusalem. From that time to the present moment ²  it has been in the process of being rebuilt, although it is not yet finished.’

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¹ tn Aram “will not be to you.”

² tn Aram “from then and until now.”