NASB
""Then we asked those elders and said to them thus, 'Who issued you a decree to rebuild this temple and to finish this structure?'"
— Ezra 5:9, NASB
“Then asked we those elders, and said unto them thus, Who commanded you to build this house, and to make up these walls?”
“Then asked we those elders, and said unto them thus, Who gave you a decree to build this house, and to finish this wall? ”
“Then we asked those elders, and said to them thus, "Who gave you a decree to build this house, and to finish this wall?"”
“We inquired of those elders, asking them,‘Who gave you the authority to rebuild this temple and to complete this structure?’”
“And we asked those ancients, and said to them thus: Who hath given you authority to build this house, and to repair these walls?”
“Then we said to the men responsible, who gave you authority for the building of this house and these walls?”
“Then asked we those elders, and said unto them thus, Who commanded you to build this house, and to make up these walls?”
This is the copy of the letter which Tattenai, the governor of the province beyond the River, and Shethar-bozenai and his colleagues the officials, who were beyond the River, sent to Darius the king.
They sent a report to him in which it was written thus: "To Darius the king, all peace.
"Let it be known to the king that we have gone to the province of Judah, to the house of the great God, which is being built with huge stones, and beams are being laid in the walls; and this work is going on with great care and is succeeding in their hands.
"Then we asked those elders and said to them thus, 'Who issued you a decree to rebuild this temple and to finish this structure?'
"We also asked them their names so as to inform you, and that we might write down the names of the men who were at their head.
"Thus they answered us, saying, 'We are the servants of the God of heaven and earth and are rebuilding the temple that was built many years ago, which a great king of Israel built and finished.
'But because our fathers had provoked the God of heaven to wrath, He gave them into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, the Chaldean, who destroyed this temple and deported the people to Babylon.