Ezra 7:12

World English Bible

Artaxerxes, king of kings,
To Ezra the priest, the scribe of the law of the perfect God of heaven.
Now

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Ezra 7:12 in other translations

Artaxerxes, king of kings, unto Ezra the priest, the scribe of the law of the God of heaven, perfect and so forth.

Ezra 7:12 · American Standard Version

Ezra 7:12 in context

  1. 10For Ezra had set his heart to seek Yahweh’s law, and to do it, and to teach statutes and ordinances in Israel.
  2. 11Now 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 Yahweh’s commandments, and of his statutes to Israel:
  3. 12Artaxerxes, king of kings,
    To Ezra the priest, the scribe of the law of the perfect God of heaven.
    Now
  4. 13I 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.
  5. 14Because you are sent by the king and his seven counselors, to inquire concerning Judah and Jerusalem, according to the law of your God which is in your hand,