6. This Ezra went up from Babylon; and he a ready scribe in the law of Moses, which יְהוָ֥ה Elohim of Israel had given: and the king granted him all his request, according to the hand of יְהוָ֥ה his Elohim upon him.

7. And there went up of the children of Israel, and of the priests, and the Levites, and the singers, and the porters, and the Nethinims, unto Jerusalem, in the seventh year of Artaxerxes the king.

8. And he came to Jerusalem in the fifth month, which in the seventh year of the king.

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

10. For Ezra had prepared his heart to seek the law of יְהוָ֥ה, and to do, and to teach in Israel statutes and judgments.