Many years later, during the reign of Artaxerxes king of Persia, Ezra son of...

This is the text of the letter King Artaxerxes had given to Ezra the priest and...

These are the family heads and genealogical records of those who returned with...

Now I assembled these exiles at the canal that flows to Ahava, and we camped...

And there by the Ahava Canal I proclaimed a fast, so that we might humble...

Then I set apart twelve of the leading priests, together with Sherebiah,...

On the twelfth day of the first month we set out from the Ahava Canal to go to...

After these things had been accomplished, the leaders approached me and said, “The people of Israel, including the priests and Levites, have not kept themselves

While Ezra prayed and made this confession, weeping and falling facedown before...

Then Ezra withdrew from before the house of God and walked to the chamber of...

At that time all the people gathered together in the square before the Water...

On the second day of the month, the heads of all the families, along with the...

Now these are the priests and Levites who went up with Zerubbabel son of...

At the dedication of the wall of Jerusalem, the Levites were sought out from all...