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• And because so many people could no longer speak Hebrew, but now spoke Aramaic as their everyday language, after the exile, when Ezra re-builds the Temple and re-establishes the worship of the one true God in Jerusalem once again, and when Nehemiah re-builds the walls of the city, we find that Ezra has to make special provision to make sure that the people understood the Law of Moses that is read out to them.
• Ezra was a priest as well as a scribe, one highly skilled in the Law of Moses - or the books of the Torah - Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy. He knew Hebrew inside out, but he knew that many of the people were more familiar with Aramaic.