these have sought their register among those reckoning themselves by genealogy, and they have not been found, and they are redeemed from the priesthood,

and by me a decree hath been made, and they sought, and have found that this city from the days of old against kings is lifting up itself, and rebellion and sedition is made in it,

Then Darius the king made a decree, and they sought in the house of the books of the treasuries placed there in Babylon,