Ezra 7:6-11

6This Ezra went up from Babylon, and he was a 1scribe skilled in the law of Moses, which the Lord God of Israel had given; and the king granted him all 2he requested 3because the hand of the Lord his God was upon him. 74Some of the sons of Israel and some of the priests, the Levites, the singers, the gatekeepers and the temple servants went up to Jerusalem in the seventh year of King Artaxerxes.

8He came to Jerusalem in the fifth month, which was in the seventh year of the king. 9For on the first of the first month 5he began to go up from Babylon; and on the first of the fifth month he came to Jerusalem, 6because the good hand of his God was upon him. 10For Ezra had set his heart to 7study the law of the Lord and to practice it, and 8to teach His statutes and ordinances in Israel.

11Now this is the copy of the decree which King Artaxerxes gave to Ezra the priest, the scribe, 9learned in the words of the commandments of the Lord and His statutes to Israel: