2 Esdras 1:30-32

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³⁰I gathered you as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings. But now, what shall I do to you? I will cast you out from my presence. ³¹When you offer oblations to me, I will turn my face from you; for I have rejected your^[a] festal days, and new moons, and circumcisions of the flesh.^[b] ³²I sent you my servants the prophets, but you have taken and killed them and torn their bodies^[c] in pieces; I will require their blood of you, says the Lord.^[d]

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2 Esdras 1:31 Other ancient authorities read I have not commanded for you
2 Esdras 1:31 Other ancient authorities lack of the flesh
2 Esdras 1:32 Other ancient authorities read the bodies of the apostles
2 Esdras 1:32 Other ancient authorities add Thus says the Lord Almighty: Recently you also laid hands on me, crying out before the judge’s seat for him to deliver me to you. You took me as a sinner, not as a father who freed you from slavery, and you delivered me to death by hanging me on the tree; these are the things you have done. Therefore, says the Lord, let my Father and his angels return and judge between you and me; if I have not kept the commandment of the Father, if I have not nourished you, if I have not done the things my Father commanded, I will contend in judgement with you, says the Lord.

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