Entonces el rey respondió a Rehum el registrador, a Beletemo, a Shimshai el escriba y al resto de sus asociados que vivían en Samaria, Siria y Fenicia, lo siguiente:
Then the king wrote back again to Rathumus the storywriter, to Beeltethmus, to Semellius the scribe, and to the rest that were in commission, and dwellers in Samaria and Syria and Phenice, after this manner;
