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27 Blessed be Yahweh, the God of our fathers, who has put such a thing as this in the king’s heart, to beautify Yahweh’s house which is in Jerusalem; 28 and has extended loving kindness to me before the king and his counselors, and before all the king’s mighty princes. I was strengthened according to Yahweh my God’s hand on me, and I gathered together chief men out of Israel to go up with me.

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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