KJV King James Version
And he came to Jerusalem in the fifth month, which [was] in the seventh year of the king.
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Ezra 7:8
And he came to Jerusalem in the fifth month, which [was] in the seventh year of the king.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
Ezra arrived in Jerusalem in the fifth month of the seventh year of the king.
WEB World English Bible
He came to Jerusalem in the fifth month, which was in the seventh year of the king.
ASV American Standard Version
And he came to Jerusalem in the fifth month, which was in the seventh year of the king.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
And he cometh in to Jerusalem in the fifth month, that is in the seventh year of the king,
Surrounding context — Ezra 7
5 The son of Abishua, the son of Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the chief priest:
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.
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.
8 And he came to Jerusalem in the fifth month, which [was] in the seventh year of the king.
9 For upon the first [day] of the first month began he to go up from Babylon, and on the first [day] of the fifth month came he to Jerusalem, according to the good hand of his God upon him.
10 For Ezra had prepared his heart to seek the law of the LORD, and to do [it], and to teach in Israel statutes and judgments.
11 Now this [is] the copy of the letter that the king Artaxerxes gave unto Ezra the priest, the scribe, [even] a scribe of the words of the commandments of the LORD, and of his statutes to Israel.
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