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2 Esdras 8:5-7
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
2 Esdras 8:5-7
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
5 For not of your own will did you come into the world,[a] and against your will you depart, for you have been given only a short time to live.(A) 6 O Lord above us, grant to your servant that we may pray before you, and give us a seed for our heart and cultivation of our understanding so that fruit may be produced, by which every mortal who bears the likeness[b] of a human may be able to live.(B) 7 For you alone exist, and we are a work of your hands, as you have declared.(C)
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