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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.
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For upon the first day of the firstmonthbegan 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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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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Imake a decree, that all they of the people of Israel, and of his priests and Levites, in my realm, which are minded of their own freewill to go up to Jerusalem,go with thee.
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Forasmuch*as thou art sentoftheking, and of his sevencounsellors, to enquireconcerningJudah and Jerusalem, according to the law of thy God which is in thine hand;