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He was a scribe skilled in the law of Moses,<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Ezra.7.6.1"><span class="xrfAlphabet">a</span></a> which the L<span class="smallcaps">ord</span>, the God of Israel, had given. The king had granted him everything he requested<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Ezra.7.6.2"><span class="xrfAlphabet">b</span></a> because the hand of the L<span class="smallcaps">ord</span> his God was on him.<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Ezra.7.6.3"><span class="xrfAlphabet">c</span></a> <span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Ezra.7.7" /> <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezra/7-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Some of the Israelites, priests, Levites, singers, gatekeepers, and temple servants<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Ezra.7.7.1"><span class="xrfAlphabet">a</span></a> accompanied him to Jerusalem in the seventh year of King Artaxerxes.</p><p class="scripture"><span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Ezra.7.8" /> <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezra/7-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Ezra<a epub:type="noteref" href="#fn.Ezra.7.8.1"><span class="fnAlphabet">A</span></a> came to Jerusalem in the fifth month, during the seventh year of the king. <span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Ezra.7.9" /> <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezra/7-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>He began the journey from Babylon on the first day of the first month<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Ezra.7.9.1"><span class="xrfAlphabet">a</span></a> and arrived in Jerusalem on the first day of the fifth month<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Ezra.7.9.2"><span class="xrfAlphabet">b</span></a> since the gracious hand of his God was on him.<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Ezra.7.9.3"><span class="xrfAlphabet">c</span></a> <span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Ezra.7.10" /> <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezra/7-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Now Ezra had determined in his heart to study the law of the L<span class="smallcaps">ord</span>, obey it, and teach<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Ezra.7.10.1"><span class="xrfAlphabet">a</span></a> its statutes and ordinances in Israel.</p><h3 class="head1">Letter from Artaxerxes</h3><p class="noind"><span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Ezra.7.11" /> <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezra/7-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>This is the text of the letter King Artaxerxes gave to Ezra the priest and scribe, an expert in matters of the L<span class="smallcaps">ord</span>’s commands and statutes for Israel:<a epub:type="noteref" href="#fn.Ezra.7.11.1"><span class="fnAlphabet">A</span></a></p><blockquote class="blockindent"><p class="scripture"><span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Ezra.7.12" /> <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezra/7-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Artaxerxes, king of kings,<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Ezra.7.12.1"><span class="xrfAlphabet">a</span></a> to Ezra the priest, an expert in the law of the God of the heavens:</p></blockquote><blockquote class="blockindent"><p class="scripture">Greetings.</p></blockquote><blockquote class="blockindent"><p class="scripture"><span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Ezra.7.13" /> <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezra/7-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>I issue a decree that any of the Israelites in my kingdom, including their priests and Levites, who want to go to Jerusalem, may go with you.<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Ezra.7.13.1"><span class="xrfAlphabet">a</span></a> <span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Ezra.7.14" /> <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezra/7-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>You are sent by the king and his seven counselors<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Ezra.7.14.1"><span class="xrfAlphabet">a</span></a> to evaluate Judah and Jerusalem according to the law of your God, which is in your possession. <span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Ezra.7.15" /> <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezra/7-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>You are also to bring the silver and gold the king and his counselors have willingly given to the God of Israel,<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Ezra.7.15.1"><span class="xrfAlphabet">a</span></a> whose dwelling is in Jerusalem,<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Ezra.7.15.2"><span class="xrfAlphabet">b</span></a> <span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Ezra.7.16" /> <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezra/7-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>and all the silver and gold you receive throughout the province of Babylon, together with the freewill offerings given by the people and the priests to the house of their God in Jerusalem.<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Ezra.7.16.1"><span class="xrfAlphabet">a</span></a> <span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Ezra.7.17" /> <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezra/7-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Then you are to be diligent to buy with this money bulls, rams, and lambs, along with their grain and drink offerings, and offer them on the altar at the house of your God in Jerusalem.<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Ezra.7.17.1"><span class="xrfAlphabet">a</span></a> <span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Ezra.7.18" /> <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezra/7-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>You may do whatever seems best to you and your brothers with the rest of the silver and gold, according to the will of your God. <span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Ezra.7.19" /> <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezra/7-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Deliver to the God of Jerusalem all the articles given to you for the service of the house of your God.<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Ezra.7.19.1"><span class="xrfAlphabet">a</span></a> <span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Ezra.7.20" /> <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezra/7-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>You may use the royal treasury<a epub:type="noteref" href="#fn.Ezra.7.20.1"><span class="fnAlphabet">A</span></a> to pay for anything else needed for the house of your God.<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Ezra.7.20.1"><span class="xrfAlphabet">a</span></a></p></blockquote><blockquote class="blockindent"><p class="scripture"><span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Ezra.7.21" /> <A name="22"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezra/7-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>I, King Artaxerxes, issue a decree to all the treasurers in the region west of the Euphrates River:<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Ezra.7.21.1"><span class="xrfAlphabet">a</span></a></p></blockquote><blockquote class="blockindent"><p class="scripture">Whatever Ezra the priest, an expert in the law of the God of the heavens, asks of you must be provided in full,<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Ezra.7.21.2"><span class="xrfAlphabet">b</span></a> <span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Ezra.7.22" /> <A name="23"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezra/7-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>up to 7,500 pounds<a epub:type="noteref" href="#fn.Ezra.7.22.1"><span class="fnAlphabet">A</span></a> of silver, 500 bushels<a epub:type="noteref" href="#fn.Ezra.7.22.2"><span class="fnAlphabet">B</span></a> of wheat, 550 gallons<a epub:type="noteref" href="#fn.Ezra.7.22.3"><span class="fnAlphabet">C</span></a> of wine, 550 gallons of oil, and salt without limit.<a epub:type="noteref" href="#fn.Ezra.7.22.4"><span class="fnAlphabet">D</span></a> <span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Ezra.7.23" /> <A name="24"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezra/7-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>Whatever is commanded by the God of the heavens must be done diligently for the house of the God of the heavens, so that wrath will not fall on the realm of the king and his sons.<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Ezra.7.23.1"><span class="xrfAlphabet">a</span></a> <span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Ezra.7.24" /> <A name="25"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezra/7-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>Be advised that you do not have authority to impose tribute, duty, and land tax on any priests, Levites, singers, doorkeepers, temple servants, or other servants of this house of God.</p></blockquote><blockquote class="blockindent"><p class="scripture"><span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Ezra.7.25" /> <A name="26"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezra/7-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>And you, Ezra, according to<a epub:type="noteref" href="#fn.Ezra.7.25.1"><span class="fnAlphabet">A</span></a> God’s wisdom that you possess, appoint magistrates and judges to judge all the people in the region west of the Euphrates who know the laws of your God and to teach anyone who does not know them.<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Ezra.7.25.1"><span class="xrfAlphabet">a</span></a> <span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Ezra.7.26" /> <A name="27"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezra/7-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>Anyone who does not keep the law of your God and the law of the king, let the appropriate judgment be executed against him, whether death, banishment, confiscation of property, or imprisonment.<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Ezra.7.26.1"><span class="xrfAlphabet">a</span></a></p></blockquote><p class="scripture"><span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Ezra.7.27" /> <A name="28"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezra/7-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>Blessed be the L<span class="smallcaps">ord</span>, the God of our ancestors, who has put it into the king’s mind<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Ezra.7.27.1"><span class="xrfAlphabet">a</span></a> to glorify the house of the L<span class="smallcaps">ord</span> in Jerusalem,<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Ezra.7.27.2"><span class="xrfAlphabet">b</span></a> <span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Ezra.7.28" /> <span class="reftext"><a href="/ezra/7-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>and who has shown favor to me before the king,<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Ezra.7.28.1"><span class="xrfAlphabet">a</span></a> his counselors, and all his powerful officers. So I took courage because I was strengthened by the hand of the L<span class="smallcaps">ord</span> my God,<a epub:type="noteref" href="#fn.Ezra.7.28.1"><span class="fnAlphabet">a</span></a> <a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Ezra.7.28.2"><span class="xrfAlphabet">b</span></a> and I gathered Israelite leaders to return with me.<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Ezra.7.28.3"><span class="xrfAlphabet">c</span></a></p><br /><section id="footnotes-Ezra.7" class="fnSection"><aside id="fn.Ezra.7.8.1"><span class="footnote-reference"><a href="#start-Ezra.7.8">7:8</a></span> LXX, Syr, Vg read <span class="italic">They</span></aside><aside id="fn.Ezra.7.11.1"><span class="footnote-reference"><a href="#start-Ezra.7.11">7:11</a></span> Ezr 7:12–26 is written in Aramaic.</aside><aside id="fn.Ezra.7.20.1"><span class="footnote-reference"><a href="#start-Ezra.7.20">7:20</a></span> Lit <span class="italic">the king’s house</span></aside><aside id="fn.Ezra.7.22.1"><span class="footnote-reference"><a href="#start-Ezra.7.22">7:22</a></span> Lit <span class="italic">100 talents</span></aside><aside id="fn.Ezra.7.22.2"><span class="footnote-reference"><a href="#start-Ezra.7.22">7:22</a></span> Lit <span class="italic">100 cors</span></aside><aside id="fn.Ezra.7.22.3"><span class="footnote-reference"><a href="#start-Ezra.7.22">7:22</a></span> Lit <span class="italic">100 baths</span></aside><aside id="fn.Ezra.7.22.4"><span class="footnote-reference"><a href="#start-Ezra.7.22">7:22</a></span> Lit <span class="italic">without instruction</span></aside><aside id="fn.Ezra.7.25.1"><span class="footnote-reference"><a href="#start-Ezra.7.25">7:25</a></span> Lit <span class="italic">to your</span></aside><aside id="fn.Ezra.7.28.1"><span class="footnote-reference"><a href="#start-Ezra.7.28">7:28</a></span> Lit <span class="italic">because the hand of the Lord my God was on me</span></aside><br /><section id="cross-references-Ezra.7" class="xrfSection"><aside id="xrf.Ezra.7.1.1"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Ezra.7.1">7:1</a></span> Ezr 4:7; 6:14; Neh 2:1</aside><aside id="xrf.Ezra.7.1.2"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Ezra.7.1">7:1</a></span> 2Kg 25:18–21; Jr 52:24–27</aside><aside id="xrf.Ezra.7.1.3"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Ezra.7.1">7:1</a></span> 2Kg 22:4; 23:4</aside><aside id="xrf.Ezra.7.2.1"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Ezra.7.2">7:2</a></span> 1Sm 8:17; 1Kg 1:7–8; 2:35</aside><aside id="xrf.Ezra.7.5.1"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Ezra.7.1">7:1-5</a></span> 1Ch 6:3–15</aside><aside id="xrf.Ezra.7.6.1"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Ezra.7.6">7:6</a></span> Ezr 7:11–12,21</aside><aside id="xrf.Ezra.7.6.2"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Ezra.7.6">7:6</a></span> Neh 2:4–8</aside><aside id="xrf.Ezra.7.6.3"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Ezra.7.6">7:6</a></span> Ezr 7:28; 8:22; Neh 2:8,18</aside><aside id="xrf.Ezra.7.7.1"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Ezra.7.7">7:7</a></span> Ezr 2:1–58; Neh 7:6–60</aside><aside id="xrf.Ezra.7.9.1"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Ezra.7.9">7:9</a></span> Ezr 8:15,21,31</aside><aside id="xrf.Ezra.7.9.2"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Ezra.7.9">7:9</a></span> Ezr 8:32</aside><aside id="xrf.Ezra.7.9.3"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Ezra.7.9">7:9</a></span> Ezr 7:28; 8:18,31; Neh 2:8,18</aside><aside id="xrf.Ezra.7.10.1"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Ezra.7.10">7:10</a></span> Neh 8:1–8</aside><aside id="xrf.Ezra.7.12.1"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Ezra.7.12">7:12</a></span> Ezk 26:7; Dn 2:37</aside><aside id="xrf.Ezra.7.13.1"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Ezra.7.13">7:13</a></span> Ezr 1:3</aside><aside id="xrf.Ezra.7.14.1"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Ezra.7.14">7:14</a></span> Est 1:14</aside><aside id="xrf.Ezra.7.15.1"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Ezra.7.15">7:15</a></span> Hg 2:8</aside><aside id="xrf.Ezra.7.15.2"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Ezra.7.15">7:15</a></span> Dt 12:5–6; 2Ch 6:2</aside><aside id="xrf.Ezra.7.16.1"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Ezra.7.16">7:16</a></span> Ex 3:22; Ezr 1:6</aside><aside id="xrf.Ezra.7.17.1"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Ezra.7.17">7:17</a></span> Nm 15:1–14; Ezr 6:9</aside><aside id="xrf.Ezra.7.19.1"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Ezra.7.19">7:19</a></span> Ezr 8:33</aside><aside id="xrf.Ezra.7.20.1"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Ezra.7.20">7:20</a></span> Ezr 6:4,8; 7:22–23</aside><aside id="xrf.Ezra.7.21.1"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Ezra.7.21">7:21</a></span> Ezr 4:10; 7:25</aside><aside id="xrf.Ezra.7.21.2"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Ezra.7.21">7:21</a></span> Ezr 6:8</aside><aside id="xrf.Ezra.7.23.1"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Ezra.7.23">7:23</a></span> Ezr 6:10</aside><aside id="xrf.Ezra.7.25.1"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Ezra.7.25">7:25</a></span> Ezr 7:10; Neh 8:1–3,8</aside><aside id="xrf.Ezra.7.26.1"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Ezra.7.26">7:26</a></span> Ezr 6:11</aside><aside id="xrf.Ezra.7.27.1"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Ezra.7.27">7:27</a></span> Ezr 6:22</aside><aside id="xrf.Ezra.7.27.2"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Ezra.7.27">7:27</a></span> Is 60:7,13</aside><aside id="xrf.Ezra.7.28.1"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Ezra.7.28">7:28</a></span> Ezr 9:9</aside><aside id="xrf.Ezra.7.28.2"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Ezra.7.28">7:28</a></span> Ezr 7:6; 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