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 the 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.