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Ezra’s Response to the Letter

27 Blessed be the Lord God of our ancestors,
    who placed this decree[a] into the king’s heart
        to beautify the Temple of the Lord in Jerusalem
28 and who showed gracious love to me before the king,
        before his advisors,
        and before all of the king’s mighty officials.

And I was strengthened because the hand of the Lord my God was upon me. So I gathered together the leaders of Israel to go with me.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezra 7:27 The Heb. lacks decree

27 Blessed be Yahweh the God of our ancestors,[a] who put this in the heart of the king to glorify the house of Yahweh in Jerusalem 28 and who extended to me loyal love before the king and his counselors, and before all of the mighty officials of the king. I took courage, for the hand of Yahweh my God was upon me, and I gathered leaders from Israel to go up with me.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezra 7:27 Or “fathers”