2 Esdras 14 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1885, 1895(RV1895)

1And it came to pass upon he led my people out of Egypt; and I brought him up to the mount of Sinai, For the world is divided into twelve parts, even the half of the tenth part:

12And there remain of it two parts after the middle of the tenth part.

13Now therefore and instruct such of them as be wise, and now renounce the life that is corruptible,

14And let go from thee mortal thoughts, the eagle to come, I will speak before thee, O Lord.

20Behold, I will go, the land, even the land of Sion, given you for a possession: but ye yourselves, and your fathers, have done unrighteousness, and have not kept the ways which the Most High commanded you.

32And forasmuch as characters which they knew not, and they sat forty days: now they wrote in the daytime, and at night they ate bread.

43As for me, I spake in the day, and by night I held not my tongue.

44So in fourscore and fourteen books.

45And it came to pass, when ver. 23,36.the forty days were fulfilled, that the Most High spake unto me, saying, The first that thou hast written publish openly, and let the worthy and unworthy read it:

46But keep the seventy last, that thou mayest deliver them to such as be wise among thy people:

47For in them is the spring of understanding, Bar. 3.12.the fountain of wisdom, and Cp. Ecclus. 24,30,31.the stream of knowledge.

48And I did so.