Ezra:7:1-10

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* 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 , * the son of Shallum , the son of Zadok , the son of Ahitub , * the son of Amariah , the son of Azariah , the son of Meraioth , * the son of Zerahiah , the son of Uzzi , the son of Bukki , * the son of Abishua , the son of Phinehas , the son of Eleazar , the son of Aaron the chief priest -- * this Ezra came up from Babylon ; and he was a skilled scribe in the Law of Moses , which the LORD God of Israel had given . The king granted him all his request , according to the hand of the LORD his God upon him . * Some of the children of Israel , the priests , the Levites , the singers , the gatekeepers , and the Nethinim came up to Jerusalem in the seventh year of King Artaxerxes . * And Ezra came to Jerusalem in the fifth month , which was in the seventh year of the king . * On the first day of the first month he began his journey from Babylon , and on the first day of the fifth month he came to Jerusalem , according to the good hand of his God upon him . * For Ezra had prepared his heart to seek the Law of the LORD , and to do it , and to teach statutes and ordinances in Israel .

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