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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,
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The son of Shallum, the son of Zadok, the son of Ahitub,
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The son of Amariah, the son of Azariah, the son of Meraioth,
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The son of Zerahiah, the son of Uzzi, the son of Bukki,
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The son of Abishua, the son of Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the chiefpriest:
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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.