2 Esdras 14:1-12
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1 And it came to pass upon the third day, I sat under an oak, and, behold, there came a voice out of a bush over against me, and said, Esdras, Esdras.
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2 And I said, Here am I, Lord And I stood up upon my feet.
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3 Then said he unto me, In the bush I did manifestly reveal myself unto Moses, and talked with him, when my people served in Egypt:
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4 And I sent him and led my people out of Egypt, and brought him up to the mount of where I held him by me a long season,
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5 And told him many wondrous things, and shewed him the secrets of the times, and the end; and commanded him, saying,
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6 These words shalt thou declare, and these shalt thou hide.
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7 And now I say unto thee,
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8 That thou lay up in thy heart the signs that I have shewed, and the dreams that thou hast seen, and the interpretations which thou hast heard:
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9 For thou shalt be taken away from all, and from henceforth thou shalt remain with my Son, and with such as be like thee, until the times be ended.
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10 For the world hath lost his youth, and the times begin to wax old.
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11 For the world is divided into twelve parts, and the ten parts of it are gone already, and half of a tenth part:
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12 And there remaineth that which is after the half of the tenth part.