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Ezra 2:63

Context
2:63 The governor 1  instructed them not to eat any of the sacred food until there was a priest who could consult 2  the Urim and Thummim.

Ezra 4:16

Context
4:16 We therefore are informing the king that if this city is rebuilt and its walls are completed, you will not retain control 3  of this portion of Trans-Euphrates.”

1 tn The Hebrew word תִּרְשָׁתָא (tirshata’) is an official title of the Persian governor in Judea, perhaps similar in meaning to “excellency” (BDB 1077 s.v.; HALOT 1798 s.v.; W. L. Holladay, Concise Hebrew and Aramaic Lexicon, 395).

2 tn Heb “to stand.”

3 tn Aram “will not be to you.”



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