Ezra 7:7-9

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⁷Other Jews, including priests, Levites, musicians, the temple guards, and servants, came to Jerusalem with Ezra. This happened during the seventh year that Artaxerxes^[a] was king.

^8-9God helped Ezra, and he arrived in Jerusalem on the first day of the fifth month^[b] of that seventh year, after leaving Babylonia on the first day of the first month.^[c]

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Footnotes

7.7 seventh year … Artaxerxes: 458 b.c. if this is Artaxerxes I; 398 b.c., if this is Artaxerxes II (see the note at 7.1-6).
7.8,9 fifth month: Ab, the fifth month of the Hebrew calendar, from about mid-July to mid-August.
7.8,9 first month: See the note at 6.19.