1 Esdras 8:11

11 Let as many as are so disposed, therefore, depart with you as I and the seven friends who are my counselors have decided,

1 Esdras 8:11 In-Context

9 "King Artaxerxes to Ezra the priest and reader of the law of the Lord, greeting.

10 In accordance with my gracious decision, I have given orders that those of the Jewish nation and of the priests and Levites and others in our realm, who freely choose to do so, may go with you to Jerusalem.

11 Let as many as are so disposed, therefore, depart with you as I and the seven friends who are my counselors have decided,

12 in order to look into matters in Judea and Jerusalem, in accordance with what is in the law of the Lord,

13 and to carry to Jerusalem the gifts for the Lord of Israel which I and my friends have vowed, and to collect for the Lord in Jerusalem all the gold and silver that may be found in the country of Babylonia,