Ezra 7:5-7

The Voice

⁵ son of Abishua, son of Phinehas, son of Eleazar, son of Aaron the chief priest)— ⁶ this Ezra traveled from Babylon to make a request of the king. Ezra was a scribe, a scholar of the law of Moses that the Eternal God of Israel had given, who had the support of the Eternal God; so the king granted all his requests ⁷ that more Jews (including laypeople, priests, Levites, singers, gatekeepers, and temple servants) be allowed to return to Jerusalem in the seventh year of King Artaxerxes’ reign.