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

son of Shallum, son of Zadok, son of Ahitub;

son of Amariah, son of Azariah, son of Meraioth;

son of Zerahiah, son of Uzzi, son of Bukki;

son of Abishua, son of Phinehas, son of Eliazar, son of Aaron the first priest; -

this Ezra, came up out of Babylon, he, being a ready scribe in the law of Moses, which Yahweh God of Israel had given, - and the king gave him, according to the hand of Yahweh his God upon him, all his request.

So then there came up some of the sons of Israel, and some of the priests and the Levites and the singers and the doorkeepers and the Nethinim, unto Jerusalem, - in the seventh year of Artaxerxes the king.

And he entered Jerusalem, in the fifth month, - the same, was the seventh year of the king.

For, on the first of the first month, was a beginning made of coming up from Babylon, - and, on the first of the fifth month, entered he into Jerusalem, according to the good hand of his God upon him.

For, Ezra, had settled his heart, to study the law of Yahweh, and to do it , - and to teach in Israel, statute and regulation.