Ezra

What the Bible says

Ezra 7:1-6

¹Now 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, ²The son of Sellum, the son of Sadoc, the son of Achitob, ³The son of Amarias, the son of Azarias, the son of Maraioth, ⁴The son of Zarahias, the son of Ozi, the son of Bocci, ⁵The son of Abisue, the son of Phinees, the son of Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest from the beginning. ⁶This 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.

Ezra 7:6-9, 28

⁶This 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. ⁷And 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. ⁸And they came to Jerusalem in the fifth month, in the seventh year of the king. ⁹For 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. ²⁸And hath inclined his mercy toward me before the king and his counsellors, and all the mighty princes of the king: and I being strengthened by the hand of the Lord my God, which was upon me, gathered together out of Israel chief men to go up with me.

Nehemiah 8:1-3

¹And the seventh month came: and the children of Israel were in their cities. And all the people were gathered together as one mall to the street which is before the water gate, and they spoke to Esdras the scribe, to bring the book of the law of Moses, which the Lord had commanded to Israel. ²Then Esdras the priest brought the law before the multitude of men and women, and all those that could understand, in the first day of the seventh month. ³And he read it plainly in the street that was before the water gate, from the morning until midday, before the men, and the women, and all those that could understand: and the ears of all the people were attentive to the book.

Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner revision), public domain.