Adoption
416 BCE
On the 6th of Tishri, that is day 22 of Payni, year eight of Darius the king, then in Syene the fortress, Uriah son of Mahseiah, an Aramean of Syene, said before Vidranga, the Guardian of the Seventh, the Troop Commander of Syene, to Zaccur son of Meshullam, an Aramean of Syene, . . . as follows:
Jedaniah son of Takhoi, [you]r la[d] whom you gave…
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