Ezra 7:5-7

Holman Christian Standard Bible

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