6 These are the sons of the jurisdictional district*+ who came up out of the captivity+ of the exiled people whom Neb·u·chad·nezʹzar+ the king of Babylon* had taken into exile+ and who later returned to Jerusalem and to Judah, each to his own city;+
13 Immediately they answered, and they were saying before the king: “Daniel,+ who is of the exiles* of Judah,+ has paid no regard to you, O king, nor to the interdict that you signed, but three times in a day he is making his petition.”+