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Ezra 7:11

Ezra chapter 7 · verse 11 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

Now this is the copy of the letter that the king Artaxerxes gave unto Ezra the priest, the scribe, even the scribe of the words of the commandments of Jehovah, and of his statutes to Israel:

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

Now this is the copy of the letter that the king Artaxerxes gave unto Ezra the priest, the scribe, even the scribe of the words of the commandments of Jehovah, and of his statutes to Israel:

Context

v.10For Ezra had set his heart to seek the law of Jehovah, and to do it, and to teach in Israel statutes and ordinances.

v.11This passage

v.12Artaxerxes, king of kings, unto Ezra the priest, the scribe of the law of the God of heaven, perfect and so forth.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Ezra 4:11

    This is the copy of the letter that they sent unto Artaxerxes the king: Thy servants the men beyond the River, and so forth.

  • Matthew 23:2

    saying, The scribes and the Pharisees sit on Moses’ seat:

  • Ezra 5:6

    The copy of the letter that Tattenai, the governor beyond the River, and Shethar-bozenai, and his companions the Apharsachites, who were beyond the River, sent unto Darius the king;

  • Matthew 23:13

    But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye shut the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye enter not in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering in to enter.

  • Mark 7:1

    And there are gathered together unto him the Pharisees, and certain of the scribes, who had come from Jerusalem,

  • Ezra 7:6

    this Ezra went up from Babylon. And he was a ready scribe in the law of Moses, which Jehovah, the God of Israel, had given; and the king granted him all his request, according to the hand of Jehovah his God upon him.