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Ezra 7:12 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" Artaxerxes, king of kings, To Ezra the priest, the scribe of the law of the perfect God of heaven. Now "

Ezra 7:12

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10 For Ezra had set his heart to seek the LORD’s law, and to do it, and to teach statutes and ordinances in Israel.

11 Now this is the copy of the letter that King Artaxerxes gave to Ezra the priest, the scribe, even the scribe of the words of the LORD’s commandments, and of his statutes to Israel:

12 Artaxerxes, king of kings, To Ezra the priest, the scribe of the law of the perfect God of heaven. Now

13 I make a decree that all those of the people of Israel and their priests and the Levites in my realm, who intend of their own free will to go to Jerusalem, go with you.

14 Because you are sent by the king and his seven counselors to inquire concerning Judah and Jerusalem, according to the law of your God which is in your hand,

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Ezra 7:1

"Now after these things, in the reign of Artaxerxes king of Persia, Ezra the son of Seraiah, the son of Azariah, the son of Hilkiah,"

Ezra 7:2

"the son of Shallum, the son of Zadok, the son of Ahitub,"

Ezra 7:3

"the son of Amariah, the son of Azariah, the son of Meraioth,"

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 7:6

"this Ezra went up from Babylon. He was a skilled scribe in the law of Moses, which the LORD, the God of Israel, had given; and the king granted him all his request, according to the LORD his God’s hand on him."

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