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Now after these things, in the reign of Artaxerxesking of Persia,Ezra the son of Seraiah, the son of Azariah, the son of Hilkiah,2
The son of Shallum, the son of Zadok, the son of Ahitub,3
The son of Amariah, the son of Azariah, the son of Meraioth,4
The son of Zerahiah, the son of Uzzi, the son of Bukki,5
The son of Abishua, the son of Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the chiefpriest:6
This Ezra went up from Babylon; and he was a readyscribe in the law of Moses, which the LORDGod of Israel had given : and the kinggranted him all his request, according to the hand of the LORD his God upon him.
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And there went up some of the children of Israel, and of the priests, and the Levites, and the singers , and the porters, and the Nethinims, unto Jerusalem, in the seventhyear of Artaxerxes the king.8
And he came to Jerusalem in the fifthmonth, which was in the seventhyear of the king.9
For upon the first day of the firstmonthbegana he to go up from Babylon, and on the first day of the fifthmonthcame he to Jerusalem, according to the goodhand of his God upon him.
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For Ezra had prepared his heart to seek the law of the LORD, and to do it, and to teach in Israelstatutes and judgments.11
Now this is the copy of the letter that the kingArtaxerxesgave unto Ezra the priest, the scribe , even a scribe of the words of the commandments of the LORD, and of his statutes to Israel.
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