Ezra 6:2

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:

Ezra 6:15

6:15 They finished this temple on the third day of the month Adar, which is the sixth ²  year of the reign of King Darius.

[6:2]  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.

[6:15]  ² sn The sixth year of the reign of Darius would be ca. 516 B.C.