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son of Abishua, son of Phinehas, son of Eleazar, son of Aaron the chief priest--
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this Ezra went up from Babylonia. He was a scribe skilled in the Law of Moses that the LORD, the God of Israel, had given, and the king granted him all that he asked, for the hand of the LORD his God was on him.
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