6:1 So Darius the king issued orders, and they searched in the archives 1 of the treasury which were deposited there in Babylon. 6:2 A scroll was found in the citadel 2 of Ecbatana which is in the province of Media, and it was inscribed as follows:
“Memorandum:
1 tn Aram “the house of the archives.”
2 tc The translation reads בִירְתָא (birta’, citadel”) rather than the reading בְּבִירְתָא (bÿvireta’, “in the citadel”) found in the MT. The MT probably experienced dittography here.