Finally, we are told that they appointed priests and Levites and organized them “as is written the Scroll of Moses” (Ezra6:18). The Pentateuch does, indeed, specified the divisions and orders (1Chronicles 23-26). The narrators, however, probably are concentrating on the Mosaic Law because this is what this Artxerxes had commissioned Ezra to establish. This is an indication of when this Aramaic report was written: