So this Ezra went up from Babylon, and he was a (A)scribe skilled in the Law of Moses, which the Lord God of Israel had given; and the king granted him all [a]he requested (B)because the hand of the Lord his God was upon him.

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  1. Ezra 7:6 Lit his request

For on the first day of the first month he began to go up from Babylon; and on the first of the fifth month he came to Jerusalem, (A)because the good hand of his God was upon him.

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28 and (A)has extended favor to me before the king and his counselors and before all the king’s mighty officials. So I was strengthened according to (B)the hand of the Lord my God that was upon me, and I gathered [a]leading men from Israel to go up with me.

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  1. Ezra 7:28 Lit heads

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