Nehemiah 2:5
And I said unto the king, If it please the king, and if your servant have found favour in your sight, that you wouldest send me unto Judah, unto the city of my fathers' sepulchres, that I may build it.
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3 And said unto the king, Let the king live for ever: why should not my countenance be sad, when the city, the place of my fathers' sepulchres, waste, and the gates thereof are consumed with fire?
4 Then the king said unto me, For what dost you make request? So I prayed to the Elohim of heaven.
5 And I said unto the king, If it please the king, and if your servant have found favour in your sight, that you wouldest send me unto Judah, unto the city of my fathers' sepulchres, that I may build it.
6 And the king said unto me, (the queen also sitting by him,) For how long shall your journey be? and when will you return? So it pleased the king to send me; and I set him a time.
7 Moreover I said unto the king, If it please the king, let letters be given me to the governors beyond the river, that they may convey me over till I come into Judah;