Ezra 7:7-9

Modern English Version

⁷ Some of the children of Israel, along with some of the priests, and the Levites, the singers, the porters, and the temple servants, went up to Jerusalem in the seventh year of King Artaxerxes.

⁸ Ezra arrived at Jerusalem in the fifth month, during the king’s seventh year. ⁹ From the first day of the first month when the journey from Babylon began, until the first day of the fifth month when he arrived at Jerusalem, the good hand of his God was upon him.