And there went up certain of the children of Israel, and of the Priests, and the Levites, and the singers, and the porters, and the Nethinim unto Jerusalem, in the seventh year of king Artaxerxes.

And he came to Jerusalem in the [a]fifth month, which was in the seventh year [b]of the king.

For upon the first day of the first month began he to go up from Babel, and on the first day of the fifth month came he to Jerusalem according to the good hand of his God that was upon him.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezra 7:8 That contained part of July, and part of August.
  2. Ezra 7:8 Of king Darius.

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