Nehemiah 2:4-6

New American Standard Bible

⁴ Then the king said to me, “^[a]What would you request?” ^(A)So I prayed to the God of heaven. ⁵ Then I said to the king, “If it pleases the king, and if your servant has found favor before you, I request that you send me to Judah, to the city of my fathers’ tombs, that I may rebuild it.” ⁶ Then the king said to me, with the queen sitting beside him, “How long will your journey be, and when will you return?” So it pleased the king to send me, and ^(B)I gave him a definite time.