1. Now after these things in the reign of Artaxerxes king of the Persians, Esdras the son of Saraias, the son of Azarias, the son of Helcias,
2. The son of Sellum, the son of Sadoc, the son of Achitob,
3. The son of Amarias, the son of Azarias, the son of Maraioth,
4. The son of Zarahias, the son of Ozi, the son of Bocci,
5. The son of Abisue, the son of Phinees, the son of Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest from the beginning.
6. This Esdras went up from Babylon, and he was a ready scribe in the law of Moses, which the Lord God had given to Israel: 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 children of the priests, and of the children of the Levites, and of the singing men, and of the porters, and of the Nathinites to Jerusalem in the seventh year of Artaxerxes the king.
8. And they came to Jerusalem in the fifth month, in the seventh year of the king.