2 ESDRAS: The Hidden Book of Prophecy With 1st Esdras - Book - Page 149
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land of Sion, parted among
you by lot, but your fathers,
and you yourselves have done
unrighteousness, and have
not kept the ways which the
Highest commanded you.
32 And for as much as he is a
righteous judge, he took from
you in time, the thing that he
had given you.
33 And now are you here, and
your brethren amongst you.
34 Therefore if so be that
you will subdue your own
understanding, and reform
your hearts, you shall be kept
alive, and after death you shall
obtain mercy.
35 For after death, shall the
judgment come, when we
shall live again: and then shall
the names of the righteous be
Cf. manifest, and the works of the
Rev. 20:12.
ungodly shall be declared.
36 Let no man therefore come
unto me now, nor seek after
me these fourty days.
The Restoration of the
Scriptures
37 So I took the five men as he
commanded me, and we went
into the field, and remained
there.
38 And the next day behold a
voice called me saying, Ezra,
Cf. Ez. 3:2.
open your mouth and drink
O F
T O R A H
that I give you to drink.
39 Then I opened my mouth,
and behold, he reached me a
full cup, which was full as it
were with water, but the color
of it was like fire.
40 And I took it, and drank:
and when I had drunk of it, my
heart uttered understanding:
and wisdom grew in my breast,
for my spirit strengthened my
memory.
41 And my mouth was opened
and shut no more.
42 The Highest gave
understanding unto the five
men, and they wrote the
wonderful visions of the
night, that were told, which
they knew not: And they sat
fourty days, and they wrote in
the day, and at night they ate
bread.
43 As for me I spoke in the
day, and held not my tongue
by night:
44 In fourty days they wrote Or, 904.
two hundred and four books.
45 And it came to pass when
the fourty days were fulfilled,
that the Highest spoke, saying,
The first that you have written,
publish openly, that the worthy
and unworthy may read it.
46 But keep the seventy
last, that you may deliver
them only to such as be wise,
among the people.
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