Ezra 7:9-11

New American Standard Bible

⁹ For on the first day of the first month he began to go up from Babylon; and on the first of the fifth month he came to Jerusalem, ^(A)because the good hand of his God was upon him. ¹⁰ For Ezra had ^[a]firmly resolved to study the Law of the Lord and to practice it, and ^(B)to teach His statutes and ordinances in Israel.

King’s Decree on Behalf of Ezra

¹¹ Now this is the copy of the letter which King Artaxerxes gave to Ezra the priest, the scribe, ^[b]learned in the words of the commandments of the Lord and His statutes to Israel: