The book of Ezra records the first two returns to Jerusalem, from exile in Babylon. Zerubbabel leads the first group back and Ezra leads the second some sixty to seventy years later. He was a scribe and his mandate for returning to Jerusalem was to teach the decrees and laws of God in Israel. Discovering that the Israelites were continuing to engage in sinful practices, Ezra implements reforms to separate the Jews from their intermarriages with the foreign inhabitants of Judah.

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