Ezra 7:8-10

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⁸ They came to Jerusalem in the fifth month, which was in the seventh year of the king. ⁹ On the first day of the first month the journey up from Babylon was begun, and on the first day of the fifth month he came to Jerusalem, for the gracious hand of his God was upon him.^{(A) 10} For Ezra had set his heart to study the law of the Lord and to do it and to teach the statutes and ordinances in Israel.^(B)