7 aSome of the children of Israel, the priests, bthe Levites, the singers, the gatekeepers, and cthe Nethinim came up to Jerusalem in the seventh year of King Artaxerxes.
8 And Ezra came to Jerusalem in the fifth month, which was in the seventh year of the king.
9 On the first day of the first month he began his journey from Babylon, and on the first day of the fifth month he came to Jerusalem, aaccording to the good hand of his God upon him.
10 For Ezra had prepared his heart to aseek the Law of the Lord, and to do it, and to bteach statutes and ordinances in Israel.
The Letter of Artaxerxes to Ezra
11 This is a copy of the letter that King Artaxerxes gave Ezra the priest, the scribe, expert in the words of the commandments of the Lord, and of His statutes to Israel:
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