Ezra 7:10-12

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition

¹⁰ For Ezra had set his heart to study the law of the Lord and to do it and to teach the statutes and ordinances in Israel.^(A)

The Letter of Artaxerxes to Ezra

¹¹ This is a copy of the letter that King Artaxerxes gave to Ezra the priest and scribe, a scholar of the words of the commandments of the Lord and his statutes for Israel: ¹² “Artaxerxes, king of kings, to the priest Ezra, the scribe of the law of the God of heaven: Peace.^[a] And now^(B)