Nehemiah 2:5 CPDV

³  And I said to the king: 'O king, live forever. Why should my expression not be mournful, since the city of the house of the sepulchers of my father is desolate, and its gates have been burned with fire?'

⁴  And the king said to me: 'What would you request?' And I prayed to the God of heaven.

⁵  And I said to the king: 'If it seems good to the king, and if your servant is pleasing before your face: that you would send me into Judea, to the city of the sepulcher of my father. And I will rebuild it.'

⁶  And the king said to me, with the queen who was sitting beside him: 'Until what time will your journey be, and when will you return?' And it was pleasing before the countenance of the king, and so he sent me. And I established a time for him.

⁷  And I said to the king: 'If it seems good to the king, may he give me letters to the governors of the region beyond the river, so that they may lead me through, until I arrive in Judea,