2 Esdras 14:29-33
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29 Our fathers at the beginning were strangers in Egypt, from whence they were delivered:
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30 And received the law of life, which they kept not, which ye also have transgressed after them.
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31 Then was the land, even the land of Sion, parted among you by lot: but your fathers, and ye yourselves, have done unrighteousness, and have not kept the ways which the Highest commanded you.
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32 And forasmuch as he is a righteous judge, he took from you in time the thing that he had given you.
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33 And now are ye here, and your brethren among you.