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Now the enemies of Judah and Benjamin heard that the {returned exiles}[note: Literally "the sons of the exile"] [were] building a temple for Yahweh the God of Israel.
And they approached Zerubbabel and the heads of the {families},[note: Literally "fathers"] and they said to them, "Let us build with you. Like you, we seek your God and have been sacrificing [to him] from the days of Esarhaddon the king of Assyria who brought us up here.