Then Johanan the son of Kareah spoke secretly to Gedaliah in Mizpah, saying, "Let me go, please, and I will kill Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and no one will know [it.] Why should he murder you, so that all the Jews who are gathered to you would be scattered, and the remnant in Judah perish?"
Orduan, Johananek isilka esan zion Gedaliasi: -Neu joango naiz Ismael hiltzera, eta ez du inork ere jakingo. Zergatik hil behar zaitu? Zure inguruan bildu diren judatarrak sakabanatzea eta herrian zutik gelditu denaren hondamendia ekarriko luke horrek.