To GO UP — and in the books of the return it is the technical word for making the journey from Babylonia to Jerusalem, which is uphill in every sense (the road climbs, and one 'goes up' to a sanctuary). ⚠ It carries extraordinary weight: 'let him GO UP' (ve-ya'al) is the LAST WORD OF THE HEBREW BIBLE, since Chronicles closes the canon and breaks off mid-sentence on Cyrus's decree — the sentence Ezra 1:3 then finishes. It is also the last clause of Ezra 1 ('Sheshbazzar brought up… when the exiles were brought up'), and it survives in modern Hebrew as ALIYAH, immigration to Israel. → first discussed at Ezra 1:3