2 Esdras 7:104-106
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104 He answered me and said, “Since you have found favor in my sight, I will show you this also. The day of judgment is decisive[a] and displays to all the seal of truth. Just as now a father does not send his son, or a son his father, or a master his servant, or a friend his dearest friend, to be ill[b] or sleep or eat or be healed in his place,(A) 105 so no one shall ever pray for another on that day, neither shall anyone lay a burden on another,[c] for then all shall bear their own righteousness and unrighteousness.”(B)
106 I answered and said, “How, then, do we find that first Abraham prayed for the people of Sodom, and Moses for our ancestors who sinned in the desert,(C)
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