1 Esdras 8:4-6

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

⁴ and the king showed him honour, for he found favour before the king^[a] in all his requests. ⁵ There came up with him to Jerusalem some of the people of Israel and some of the priests and Levites and temple singers and gatekeepers and temple servants, ⁶ in the seventh year of the reign of Artaxerxes, in the fifth month (this was the king’s seventh year); for they left Babylon at the new moon of the first month and arrived in Jerusalem at the new moon of the fifth month, by the prosperous journey that the Lord gave them.^[b]