Ezra 7:7-9

Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

⁷ And there went up also to Jerusalem, in the seventh year of Ar-ta-xerx′es the king, some of the people of Israel, and some of the priests and Levites, the singers and gatekeepers, and the temple servants. ⁸ And he came to Jerusalem in the fifth month, which was in the seventh year of the king; ⁹ for on the first day of the first month he began^[a] to go up from Babylonia, and on the first day of the fifth month he came to Jerusalem, for the good hand of his God was upon him.