3 the son of Amari´ah, the son of Azari´ah, the son of Merai´oth,
4 the son of Zerahi´ah, the son of Uzzi, the son of Bukki,
5 the son of Abishu´a, the son of Phin´ehas, the son of Ele-a´zar, the son of Aaron the chief priest:
6 this Ezra went up from Babylon; and he was a ready scribe in the law of Moses, which the Lord God of Israel had given: and the king granted him all his request, according to the hand of the Lord his God upon him.
7 And there went up some of the children of Israel, and of the priests, and the Levites, and the singers, and the porters, and the Neth´inim, unto Jerusalem, in the seventh year of Artaxerx´es the king.
8 And he came to Jerusalem in the fifth month, which was in the seventh year of the king.
9 For upon the first day of the first month began he to go up from Babylon, and on the first day of the fifth month came he to Jerusalem, according to the good hand of his God upon him.