Now this is the copy of the letter that the king Artaxerxes gave unto Ezra the priest, the scribe, even the scribe of the words of the commandments of Jehovah, and of his statutes to Israel:
Soþeli this is þe saumpler of þe pistle of þe comaundement, which þe kyng Artaxerses yaf to Esdras, preest, writere lerud in þe wordis and comaundementis of þe Lord, and in hise cerymonyes in Israel.