7:1Now after these things, in the reign of Artaxerxes king of Persia, Ezra the son of Seraiah, the son of Azariah, the son of Hilkiah,

7:2The son of Shallum, the son of Zadok, the son of Ahitub,

7:3The son of Amariah, the son of Azariah, the son of Meraioth,

7:4The son of Zerahiah, the son of Uzzi, the son of Bukki,

7:5The son of Abishua, the son of Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the chief priest:

7:6This 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.