Ezra 7:6-8

New International Reader's Version

⁶ So Ezra came up from Babylon. He was a teacher who knew the Law of Moses very well. The Lord, the God of Israel, had given Israel that law. The king had given Ezra everything he asked for. That’s because the Lord his God helped him. ⁷ Some of the Israelites came up to Jerusalem too. They included priests, Levites and musicians. They also included the temple servants and those who guarded the temple gates. It was in the seventh year that Artaxerxes was king.

⁸ Ezra arrived in Jerusalem in the fifth month of the seventh year of the king’s rule.