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Ezra commissioned to teach and administer the Law

Artaxerxes authorized Ezra, a priest and scribe skilled in the Law, to lead willing exiles to Jerusalem, carry offerings, appoint judges, and teach those who did not know God's commands. Ezra had set his heart to study, practice, and teach the Law (Ezra 7:1-28).

Based on a king's years of rulealternate date: 458 BC · common reckoning of Artaxerxes' seventh year
📖 Ezra 7:1–3

1Many years later, during the reign of Artaxerxes king of Persia, Ezra son of Seraiah, the son of Azariah, the son of Hilkiah, 2the son of Shallum, the son of Zadok, the son of Ahitub, 3the son of Amariah, the son of Azariah, the son of Meraioth,

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