2 Esdras 6 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021(NRSVUE)

2 Esdras 6

1 the portals of the world were in place, and before the assembled winds blew,

2and before the rumblings of thunder sounded, and before the flashes of lightning shone, and before the foundations of paradise were laid,

3 were established, and before the innumerable hosts of angels were gathered together,

4 because from him were born Jacob and Esau, for Jacob’s hand held Esau’s heel from the beginning.

9Now Esau is the end of this age, and Jacob is the beginning of the age that follows.

10The beginning of a person is the hand, and the end of a person is the heel; seek for nothing else, Ezra, between the heel and the hand, Ezra!”

More Signs of the End

11 waters.

18 together.

21Children a year old shall speak with their voices, and pregnant women shall give birth to premature children at three and four months, and these shall live and leap about.

22Sown places shall suddenly appear unsown, and full storehouses shall suddenly be found to be empty;

23 inhabitants shall be changed and converted to a different spirit.

27For evil shall be blotted out, and deceit shall be quenched;

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31

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40 the one you called Behemoth and the name of the other Leviathan.

50 one of the parts that had been dried up on the third day, to live in it, where there are a thousand mountains,

52

56 and most dear, have been given into their hands.

59v 55; Ps 74.10If the world has indeed been created for us, why do we not possess our world as an inheritance? How long will this be so?”

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