2 Esdras 14 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021(NRSVUE)

2 Esdras 14The Lord Commissions Ezra

1 my people out of Egypt, and I led him up on Mount Sinai, where I kept him with me many days.

5I told him many wondrous things and showed him the secrets of the times and declared to him the end of the times. Then I commanded him, saying,

6‘These words you shall publish openly, and these you shall keep secret.’

7And now I say to you:

8Lay up in your heart the signs that I have shown you, the dreams that you have seen, and the interpretations that you have heard,

9 of its parts have already passed,

12as well as half of the tenth part; so two of its parts remain, besides half of the tenth part.

13 And now renounce the life that is corruptible,

14 that you saw in the vision is already hurrying to come.”

Ezra’s Concern to Restore the Scriptures

19Then I answered and said, “Let me speak in your presence, Lord.

20 are farther in the interior.

34If you, then, will rule over your minds and discipline your hearts, you shall be kept alive, and after death you shall obtain mercy.

35 They sat forty days; they wrote during the daytime and ate their bread at night.

43But as for me, I spoke in the daytime and was not silent at night.

44 books were written.

45 books that you wrote first, and let the worthy and the unworthy read them,

46but keep the seventy that were written last, in order to give them to the wise among your people.

47 ———

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