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So this Ezra went up from Babylon, and he was a ^(C1)scribe skilled in the Law of Moses, which the LORD God of Israel had given; and the king granted him all ^(F1)he requested ^(C2)because the hand of the LORD his God was upon him.

For on the first day of the first month he began to go up from Babylon; and on the first of the fifth month he came to Jerusalem, ^(C1)because the good hand of his God was upon him.

and ^(C1)has extended favor to me before the king and his counselors and before all the king's mighty officials. So I was strengthened according to ^(C2)the hand of the LORD my God that was upon me, and I gathered ^(F1)leading men from Israel to go up with me.