юношей без физических изъянов, красивых, способных к обучению разным наукам, образованных, понятливых и годных к службе при царском дворе. Он должен был научить их языку и литературе халдеев[4].
youths in whom was no defect, who were good-looking, showing intelligence in every branch of wisdom, endowed with understanding and discerning knowledge, and who had ability for serving in the king’s court; and he ordered him to teach them the literature and language of the Chaldeans.