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.