Ezra 7:8-10

International Standard Version

⁸ He arrived in Jerusalem during the fifth month of the seventh year of the king’s reign.^{[a] 9} On the first day^[b] of the first month he left Babylon and he arrived in Jerusalem on the first day^[c] of the fifth month, since the beneficent hand of his God was upon him. ¹⁰ For Ezra had set his heart to seek the Law of the Lord, to obey it, and to teach God’s^[d] statutes and judgments in Israel.