6:3 So I sent messengers to them saying, “I am engaged in 1 an important work, and I am unable to come down. Why should the work come to a halt when I leave it to come down to you?”
13:6 During all this time I was not in Jerusalem, 2 for in the thirty-second year of King Artaxerxes of Babylon, I had gone back to the king. After some time 3 I had requested leave of the king,
1 tn Heb “[am] doing.”
2 map For location see Map5-B1; Map6-F3; Map7-E2; Map8-F2; Map10-B3; JP1-F4; JP2-F4; JP3-F4; JP4-F4.
3 tn Heb “to the end of days.”