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2 Esdras 8:2-4
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
2 Esdras 8:2-4
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
2 But I tell you a parable, Ezra. Just as, when you ask the earth, it will tell you that it provides a large amount of clay from which earthenware is made but only a little dust from which gold comes, so is the course of the present world.(A) 3 Many have been created, but only a few shall be saved.”(B)
Ezra Again Appeals to God’s Mercy
4 I answered and said, “Then drink your fill of[a] understanding, O my soul, and drink wisdom, O my heart.
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