Ezra 7:9-11

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⁹ On the first day of the first month the journey up from Babylon was begun, and on the first day of the fifth month he came to Jerusalem, for the gracious hand of his God was upon him.^{(A) 10} For Ezra had set his heart to study the law of the Lord and to do it and to teach the statutes and ordinances in Israel.^(B)

The Letter of Artaxerxes to Ezra

¹¹ This is a copy of the letter that King Artaxerxes gave to Ezra the priest and scribe, a scholar of the words of the commandments of the Lord and his statutes for Israel: