Ezra 7:1-10
Ezra Arrives in Jerusalem

1 Now after these things, in the reign of Artaxerxes king of Persia, Ezra the son of Seraiah, the son of Azariah, the son of Hilkiah,

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2 The son of Shallum, the son of Zadok, the son of Ahitub,

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3 The son of Amariah, the son of Azariah, the son of Meraioth,

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4 The son of Zerahiah, the son of Uzzi, the son of Bukki,

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5 The son of Abishua, the son of Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the chief priest:

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6 This Ezra went up from Babylon; and he [was] a ready scribe in the law of Moses, which the LORD God of Israel had given: and the king granted him all his request, according to the hand of the LORD his God upon him.

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7 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 seventh year of Artaxerxes the king.

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8 And he came to Jerusalem in the fifth month, which [was] in the seventh year of the king.

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9 For upon the first [day] of the first month began he to go up from Babylon, and on the first [day] of the fifth month came he to Jerusalem, according to the good hand of his God upon him.

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10 For Ezra had prepared his heart to seek the law of the LORD, and to do [it], and to teach in Israel statutes and judgments.

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