Ezra 7:6-8

English Standard Version Anglicised

⁶ this Ezra went up from Babylonia. He was a scribe ^(A)skilled in the Law of Moses that the Lord, the God of Israel, had given, and the king granted him all that he asked, ^(B)for the hand of the Lord his God was on him.

⁷ And there went up also to Jerusalem, in the seventh year of Artaxerxes the king, some of the people of Israel, and ^(C)some of the priests and ^(D)Levites, the singers and gatekeepers, and the temple ^(E)servants. ⁸ And Ezra^[a] came to Jerusalem in the fifth month, which was in the seventh year of the king.