1 Esdras 8:4-6

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⁴ and the king showed him honor, for he found favor 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,^{(A) 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 on the new moon of the first month and arrived in Jerusalem on the new moon of the fifth month, by the successful journey that the Lord gave them.^(B)