Ezra 7:9

⁹He had arranged to leave Babylon on April 8, the first day of the new year, and he arrived at Jerusalem on August 4, for the gracious hand of his God was on him.

Ezra 7 marks a dramatic pivot in the post-exilic story. Nearly sixty years after the temple was rebuilt (Ezra 6), a new figure arrives: Ezra the scribe, a priest with the law of God in his heart and the Persian king's decree in his hand. The chapter traces his genealogy back to Aaro