1. Now after these things in the reign of Artaxerxes king of the Persians, Esdras the son of Saraias, the son of Azarias, the son of Helcias,
2. The son of Sellum, the son of Sadoc, the son of Achitob,
3. The son of Amarias, the son of Azarias, the son of Maraioth,
4. The son of Zarahias, the son of Ozi, the son of Bocci,
5. The son of Abisue, the son of Phinees, the son of Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest from the beginning.
6. This Esdras went up from Babylon, and he was a ready scribe in the law of Moses, which the Lord God had given to Israel: and the king granted him all his request, according to the hand of the Lord his God upon him.