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2 Esdras 10:8-10
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
2 Esdras 10:8-10
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
8 It is most appropriate to mourn now, because we are all mourning, and to be sorrowful, because we are all sorrowing; you are sorrowing for one son.[a] 9 Now ask the earth, and she will tell you that it is she who ought to mourn over so many who have come into being upon her.(A) 10 From the beginning all have been born of her, and others will come, and, behold, almost all walk to perdition, and a multitude of them will come to doom.(B)
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- 10.8 Syr adds but we, the whole world, for our mother
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