Ezra 7:6-8

Holman Christian Standard Bible

⁶ —came up from Babylon. He was a scribe skilled in the law of Moses,^(A) which Yahweh, the God of Israel, had given. The king had granted him everything he requested^(B) because the hand of Yahweh his God was on him.^{(C) 7} Some of the Israelites, priests, Levites, singers, gatekeepers, and temple servants^(D) accompanied him to Jerusalem in the seventh year of King Artaxerxes.

⁸ Ezra^[a] came to Jerusalem in the fifth month, during the seventh year of the king.