15:007:006 This 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.

15:007:007 And there went up some of the children of Israel, and of the
           priests, and the Levites, and the singers, and the porters,
           and the Nethinims, unto Jerusalem, in the seventh year of
           Artaxerxes the king.

15:007:008 And he came to Jerusalem in the fifth month, which was in the
           seventh year of the king.

15:007:009 For upon the first day of the first month began he to go up
           from Babylon, and on the first day of the fifth month came he
           to Jerusalem, according to the good hand of his God upon him.

15:007:010 For Ezra had prepared his heart to seek the law of the lord,
           and to do it, and to teach in Israel statutes and judgments.

15:007:011 Now this is the copy of the letter that the king Artaxerxes
           gave unto Ezra the priest, the scribe, even a scribe of the
           words of the commandments of the lord, and of his statutes to
           Israel.

15:007:012 Artaxerxes, king of kings, unto Ezra the priest, a scribe of
           the law of the God of heaven, perfect peace, and at such a
           time.

15:007:013 I make a decree, that all they of the people of Israel, and of
           his priests and Levites, in my realm, which are minded of
           their own freewill to go up to Jerusalem, go with thee.

15:007:014 Forasmuch as thou art sent of the king, and of his seven
           counsellors, to enquire concerning Judah and Jerusalem,
           according to the law of thy God which is in thine hand;

15:007:015 And to carry the silver and gold, which the king and his
           counsellors have freely offered unto the God of Israel, whose
           habitation is in Jerusalem,

15:007:016 And all the silver and gold that thou canst find in all the
           province of Babylon, with the freewill offering of the people,
           and of the priests, offering willingly for the house of their
           God which is in Jerusalem: 

15:007:017 That thou mayest buy speedily with this money bullocks, rams,
           lambs, with their meat offerings and their drink offerings,
           and offer them upon the altar of the house of your God which
           is in Jerusalem.

15:007:018 And whatsoever shall seem good to thee, and to thy brethren,
           to do with the rest of the silver and the gold, that do after
           the will of your God.

15:007:019 The vessels also that are given thee for the service of the
           house of thy God, those deliver thou before the God of
           Jerusalem.