Ezra 7:6-8

New Catholic Bible

⁶ this Ezra came up from Babylon. He was a scribe who was skilled in the law of Moses which was given by the Lord, the God of Israel, and the king granted him everything that he requested, since the hand of the Lord God was upon him.

⁷ Ezra was accompanied to Jerusalem by a number of Israelites, priests, Levites, singers, gatekeepers, and temple slaves in the seventh year of the reign of King Artaxerxes. ⁸ Ezra arrived in Jerusalem in the fifth month of the seventh year of the king’s reign.