2 Esdras 7:126-128

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⁵⁶¹²⁶For while we lived and committed iniquity we did not consider what we should suffer after death.”

⁵⁷¹²⁷He answered and said, “This is the meaning of the contest which every man who is born on earth shall wage, ⁵⁸¹²⁸that if he is defeated he shall suffer what you have said, but if he is victorious he shall receive what I have said.^[a]

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2 Esdras 7:128 Syr Ethiop Arab 1: Lat I say

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