1. After these events, during the reign of King Artaxerxes of Persia, Ezra —Seraiah’s son, Azariah’s son,Hilkiah’s son,
2. Shallum’s son,Zadok’s son, Ahitub’s son,
3. Amariah’s son, Azariah’s son,Meraioth’s son,
4. Zerahiah’s son,Uzzi’s son, Bukki’s son,
5. Abishua’s son, Phinehas’s son,Eleazar’s son, Aaron the chief priest’s son
6. — came up from Babylon. He was a scribe skilled in the law of Moses, which Yahweh, the God of Israel, had given. The king had granted him everything he requested because the hand of Yahweh his God was on him.
7. Some of the Israelites, priests, Levites, singers, gatekeepers, and temple servants accompanied him to Jerusalem in the seventh year of King Artaxerxes.