⁷ And in the days of ^[a]Artaxerxes, Bishlam, Mithredath, Tabeel, and the rest of his colleagues wrote to Artaxerxes king of Persia; and the ^[b]text of the letter was written in Aramaic and translated ^(A)from Aramaic.

¹¹ Then Eliakim, Shebna, and Joah said to Rabshakeh, “Please speak to your servants in ^(A)Aramaic, for we ^[a]understand it; and do not speak to us in ^[b](B)Judean ^[c]so that the people who are on the wall hear you.”