Ezra 7:1-10

International Standard Version

Ezra’s Return to Jerusalem^(A)

7 After all of this, during the reign of King Artaxerxes of Persia, Seraiah’s son Ezra (who was the grandson of Azariah, son of Hilkiah, ² son of Shallum, son of Zadok, son of Ahitub, ³ son of Amariah, son of Azariah, son of Meraioth, ⁴ son of Zerahiah, son of Uzzi, son of Bukki, ⁵ son of Abishua, son of Phinehas, son of Eleazar, son of Aaron the chief priest) ⁶ left^[a] Babylon. He was a skillful scribe of the Law of Moses that the Lord God of Israel had given. And the king granted him everything he had requested because the hand of the Lord his God was upon him. ⁷ Some of the descendants of Israel also left for Jerusalem, including the priests, the descendants of Levi, the singers, the gatekeepers, and the Temple Servants, during the seventh year of king Artaxerxes.

⁸ He arrived in Jerusalem during the fifth month of the seventh year of the king’s reign.^{[b] 9} On the first day^[c] of the first month he left Babylon and he arrived in Jerusalem on the first day^[d] of the fifth month, since the beneficent hand of his God was upon him. ¹⁰ For Ezra had set his heart to seek the Law of the Lord, to obey it, and to teach God’s^[e] statutes and judgments in Israel.