2 Esdras 3:19-21

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

¹⁹ Your glory passed through the four gates of fire and earthquake and wind and ice, to give the law to the descendants of Jacob, and your commandment to the posterity of Israel.

²⁰ ‘Yet you did not take away their evil heart from them, so that your law might produce fruit in them. ²¹ For the first Adam, burdened with an evil heart, transgressed and was overcome, as were also all who were descended from him.