Ezr 7:6, 11 | ESV | STEP | this Ezra went up from Babylonia . He was a scribe skilled in the Law of Moses that the Lord , the God of Israel , had given , and the king granted him all that he asked , for the hand of the Lord his God was on him.

a ver. 11, 12, 21; Neh. 8:1-3, 13; 12:26, 36

b ver. 9, 28; ch. 8:18, 22, 31; Neh. 2:8, 18; [ch. 5:5]

Ezra 7:6

6 this Ezra went up from Babylonia. He was a scribe ^askilled in the Law of Moses that the Lord, the God of Israel, had given, and the king granted him all that he asked, ^bfor the hand of the Lord his God was on him.

Ezra 7:11

11 This is a copy of the letter that King Artaxerxes gave to Ezra the priest, the scribe, a man learned in matters of the commandments of the Lord and his statutes for Israel: