³⁰ “So now, if the boy is not with us when I go back to your servant my father,^(A) and if my father, whose life is closely bound up with the boy’s life,^(B)

²⁴ Then the angel of the Lord stood in a narrow path through the vineyards, with walls on both sides.

⁵ Ezra opened the book. All the people could see him because he was standing^(A) above them; and as he opened it, the people all stood up.

¹⁷ and the scroll of the prophet Isaiah was handed to him. Unrolling it, he found the place where it is written: