3 Ezra (also called 1 Esdras) · Restored Names Edition · first paragraph
1After this were the principal men of the families chosen according to their tribes, to go up with their wives and sons and daughters, with their menservants and maidservants, and their cattle.
2And Darius sent with them a thousand horsemen, till they had brought them back to Jerusalem safely, and with musical instruments tabrets and flutes.
3And all their brothers played, and he made them go up together with them.
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