Ezra 2:65

2:65 not counting ¹  their male and female servants, who numbered 7,337. They also had 200 male and female singers

Ezra 4:21

4:21 Now give orders that these men cease their work and that this city not be rebuilt until such time as I so instruct. ² 

Ezra 5:9

5:9 We inquired of those elders, asking them, ‘Who gave you the authority to rebuild this temple and to complete this structure?’

Ezra 5:13

5:13 But in the first year of King Cyrus of Babylon, ³  King Cyrus enacted a decree to rebuild this temple of God.

Ezra 6:7

6:7 Leave the work on this temple of God alone. ⁴  Let the governor of the Jews and the elders of the Jews rebuild this temple of God in its proper place.

Ezra 7:9

7:9 On the first day of the first month he had determined to make ⁵  the ascent from Babylon, and on the first day of the fifth month he arrived at Jerusalem, ⁶  for the good hand of his God was on him.

[2:65]  ¹ tn Heb “besides” or “in addition to.”

[4:21]  ² tn Aram “until a command is issued from me.”

[5:13]  ³ sn Cyrus was actually a Persian king, but when he conquered Babylon in 539 b.c. he apparently appropriated to himself the additional title “king of Babylon.” The Syriac Peshitta substitutes “Persia” for “Babylon” here, but this is probably a hyper-correction.

[6:7]  ⁴ tc For the MT reading “the work on this temple of God” the LXX reads “the servant of the Lord Zurababel” [= Zerubbabel].

[7:9]  ⁵ tc The translation reads יִסַּד (yissad, “he appointed” [= determined]) rather than the reading יְסֻד (yÿsud, “foundation”) of the MT. (The words “to make” are supplied in the translation for clarity and for stylistic reasons.)

[7:9]  ⁶ sn Apparently it took the caravan almost four months to make the five hundred mile journey.