Ezra 6:2

A scroll was found in the citadel ¹  of Ecbatana which is in the province of Media, and it was inscribed as follows: “Memorandum:

A scroll was found in the citadel of Ecbatana in the province of Media, and this was written on it: Memorandum:

In Ecbatana in the fortress, which is in the province of Media, a scroll was found and there was written in it as follows: "Memorandum—

But it was at the fortress at Ecbatana in the province of Media that a scroll was found. This is what it said:

Eventually a scroll was turned up in the fortress of Ecbatana over in the province of Media, with this writing on it: Memorandum

And at Achmetha, in the great house of the king in the land of Media, they came across a roll, in which this statement was put on record:

But it was in Ecbatana, the capital in the province of Media, that a scroll was found on which this was written: "A record.

And at Achmetha, in the palace that is in the province of Media, a scroll was found, and in it a record was written thus:

A scroll was found in the citadel ¹  of Ecbatana which is in the province of Media, and it was inscribed as follows: “Memorandum:

¹ 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.