[10] For Ezra had prepared his heart to seek the law and to do it, and to teach in Israel statutes and judgments. [11] Now this is the copy of the letter that the king Artaxerxes gave unto Ezra the priest, the scribe, of the words of the commandments of the LORD, and of his statutes to Israel. [12] Artaxerxes, king unto Ezra the priest, a scribe of the law of the God of heaven, perfect peace, and at such a time. [13] 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.