1. And after these events, in the reign of Artaḥshashta sovereign of Persia, Ezra son of Serayah, son of Azaryah, son of Ḥilqiyah,
2. son of Shallum, son of Tsaḏoq, son of Aḥituḇ,
3. son of Amaryah, son of Azaryah, son of Merayoth,
4. son of Zeraḥyah, son of Uzzi, son of Buqqi,
5. son of Aḇishua, son of Phineḥas, son of El‛azar, son of Aharon the chief priest –
6. this Ezra came up from Baḇel. And he was a scribe, skilled in the Torah of Mosheh, which יהוה Elohim of Yisra’ĕl had given. And the sovereign gave him all he asked, according to the hand of יהוה his Elohim upon him.
7. And some of the children of Yisra’ĕl, and the priests, and the Lĕwites, and the singers, and the gatekeepers, and the Nethinim came up to Yerushalayim in the seventh year of Sovereign Artaḥshashta.
8. And he came to Yerushalayim in the fifth month, which was in the seventh year of the sovereign.
9. For on the first day of the first month he began to go up from Baḇel, and on the first day of the fifth month he came to Yerushalayim, according to the good hand of his Elohim upon him.
10. For Ezra had prepared his heart to seek the Torah of יהוה, and to do it, and to teach laws and right-rulings in Yisra’ĕl.