2 Esdras 14:1-3

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The Lord Commissions Ezra

14 On the third day, while I was sitting under an oak, suddenly a voice came out of a bush opposite me and said, “Ezra, Ezra!”^{(A) 2} And I answered, “Here I am, Lord,” and I rose to my feet. ³ Then he said to me, “I revealed myself in a bush and spoke to Moses when my people were in bondage in Egypt,^(B)