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Thus they returned us answer, saying, “We are the servants of the God of heaven and earth and are building the house that was built these many years ago, which a great king of Israel built and finished.

Ezra 5:11 · WEB

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ગુજરાતીએઝરા ૫:૧૧
તેઓએ ઉત્તર આપ્યો કે, ‘અમે એક, એટલે જે આકાશ તથા પૃથ્વીના ઈશ્વર છે, તેમના સેવકો છીએ, અને ઘણાં વર્ષો અગાઉ ઇઝરાયલના એક મહાન રાજાએ બંધાવેલ સભાસ્થાનને જ અમે ફરીથી બાંધી રહ્યાં છીએ.
हिन्दीएज्रा ५:११
उन्होंने हमें यह उत्तर दिया, ‘हम तो आकाश और पृथ्वी के परमेश्वर के दास हैं, और जिस भवन को बहुत वर्ष हुए इस्राएलियों के एक बड़े राजा ने बनाकर तैयार किया था, उसी को हम बना रहे हैं।

In context

9Then we asked those elders, and said to them thus, “Who gave you a decree to build this house, and to finish this wall?”

10We asked them their names also, to inform you that we might write the names of the men who were at their head.

11Thus they returned us answer, saying, “We are the servants of the God of heaven and earth and are building the house that was built these many years ago, which a great king of Israel built and finished.

12But after our fathers had provoked the God of heaven to wrath, he gave them into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, the Chaldean, who destroyed this house and carried the people away into Babylon.

13But in the first year of Cyrus king of Babylon, Cyrus the king made a decree to build this house of God.

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