Ezra 8:31-33

Contemporary English Version

The Return to Jerusalem

³¹ On the twelfth day of the first month,^[a] we left the Ahava River^[b] and started for Jerusalem. Our God watched over us, and as we traveled along, he kept our enemies from ambushing us.

³² After arriving in Jerusalem, we rested for three days. ³³ Then on the fourth day we went to God's temple, where the silver, the gold, and the other things were weighed and given to the priest Meremoth son of Uriah. With him were Eleazar son of Phinehas and the two Levites, Jozabad son of Jeshua and Noadiah son of Binnui.