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Then Eliakim and Shebna and Joah said to Rabshakeh, "Speak now to your servants in aAramaic, for we understand it; and do not speak with us in bJudean in the hearing of the people who are on the wall."
a
Ezra 4:7, Daniel 2:4
Ezra 4
7
And in the days of Artaxerxes, Bishlam, Mithredath, Tabeel and the rest of his colleagues wrote to Artaxerxes king of Persia; and the text of the letter was written in Aramaic and translated afrom Aramaic.
Daniel 2
4
Then the Chaldeans spoke to the king in aAramaic: "bO king, live forever! cTell the dream to your servants, and we will declare the interpretation."