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Ezra 7:3

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The son of Amariah, the son of Azariah, the son of Meraioth,
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Ezra 7:3

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son

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1. A male child or descendant. 2. One belonging to, related to, or characterized by the person, people, place, condition, or quality named.

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7:1NOW after these things, in the reign of Artaxerxes king of Persia, Ezra the son of Seraiah, the son of Azariah, the son of Hilkiah,

7:2The son of Shallum, the son of Zadok, the son of Ahitub,

7:3The son of Amariah, the son of Azariah, the son of Meraioth,

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7:4The son of Zerahiah, the son of Uzzi, the son of Bukki,

7:5The son of Abishua, the son of Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the chief priest:

7:6This Ezra went up from Babylon; and he was a ready scribe in the law of Moses, which the Lord God of Israel had given: and the king granted him all his request, according to the hand of the Lord his God upon him.

7:7And there went up some of the children of Israel, and of the priests, and the Levites, and the singers, and the porters, and the Nethinims, unto Jerusalem, in the seventh year of Artaxerxes the king.

7:8And he came to Jerusalem in the fifth month, which was in the seventh year of the king.

7:9For upon the first day of the first month began he to go up from Babylon, and on the first day of the fifth month came he to Jerusalem, according to the good hand of his God upon him.

7:10For Ezra had prepared his heart to seek the law of the Lord, and to do it, and to teach in Israel statutes and judgments.

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