A moment in scripture
Ezra 7:6
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.
The surrounding passage
- Ezra 7:4
The son of Zerahiah, the son of Uzzi, the son of Bukki,
- Ezra 7:5
The son of Abishua, the son of Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the chief priest:
- Ezra 7:7
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 Nethinims, unto Jerusalem, in the seventh year of Artaxerxes the king.
- Ezra 7:8
And he came to Jerusalem in the fifth month, which was in the seventh year of the king.
Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.