Ezra 7:9-11

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

⁹ For upon the first day of the first month he began to go up from Babylon, and on the first day of the fifth month he came to Jerusalem according to the good hand of his God upon him.

¹⁰ For Esdras had prepared his heart to seek the law of the Lord, and to do and to teach in Israel the commandments and judgment.

¹¹ And this is the copy of the letter of the edict, which king Artaxerxes gave to Esdras the priest, the scribe instructed in the words and commandments of the Lord, and his ceremonies in Israel.