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Ezra 7:3 (NIV)


the son of Amariah, the son of Azariah, the son of Meraioth, 4 the son of Zerahiah, the son of Uzzi, the son of Bukki,
Ha! Look before you post! I beat you! :) Unless we are going backwards now!

Ezra 7:5 KJV

The son of Abishua, the son of Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the chief priest:
 
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Ezra 7:6 (KJV)
This Ezra went up from Babylon; and he was a ready scribe in the law of Moses, which the LORD God of Israel had given: and the king granted him all his request, according to the hand of the LORD his God upon him.
 

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Ezra 7:7 (ASV)

And there went up some of the children of Israel, and of the priests, and the Levites, and the singers, and the porters, and the Nethinim, unto Jerusalem, in the seventh year of Artaxerxes the king.
 
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Ezra 7:9 (King James 2000 Bible)
For upon the first day of the first month he began to go up from Babylon, and on the first day of the fifth month he came to Jerusalem, according to the good hand of his God upon him.
 

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Ezra 7:11 (ASV)

Now this is the copy of the letter that the king Artaxerxes gave unto Ezra the priest, the scribe, even the scribe of the words of the commandments of Jehovah, and of his statutes to Israel:
 
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Ezra 7:12 (JPS Tanakh 1917)
Artaxerxes, king of kings, unto Ezra the priest, the scribe of the Law of the God of heaven, and so forth. And now
 

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Ezra 7:13 NASB

I have issued a decree that any of the people of Israel and their priests and the Levites in my kingdom who are willing to go to Jerusalem, may go with you.
 
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Ezra 7:16 (ERV)
and all the silver and gold that thou shalt find in all the province of Babylon, with the freewill offering of the people, and of the priests, offering willingly for the house of their God which is in Jerusalem;
 

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Ezra 7:17 (NIV)

With this money be sure to buy bulls, rams and male lambs,together with their grain offerings and drink offerings, and sacrifice them on the altar of the temple of your God in Jerusalem.
 
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Ezra 7:20 (KJV)
And whatsoever more shall be needful for the house of thy God, which thou shalt have occasion to bestow, bestow it out of the king's treasure house.
 

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Ezra 7:21 (KJV)

And I, even I Artaxerxes the king, do make a decree to all the treasurers which are beyond the river, that whatsoever Ezra the priest, the scribe of the law of the God of heaven, shall require of you, it be done speedily,