2 Esdras 14:12-14

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¹²as well as half of the tenth part; so two of its parts remain, besides half of the tenth part.^[a] ¹³Now therefore, set your house in order, and reprove your people; comfort the lowly among them, and instruct those that are wise.^[b] And now renounce the life that is corruptible, ¹⁴and put away from you mortal thoughts; cast away from you the burdens of man, and divest yourself now of your weak nature,

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2 Esdras 14:12 Syr omits verses 11, 12: Ethiop For the world is divided into ten parts, and has come to the tenth, and half of the tenth remains. Now . . .
2 Esdras 14:13 Latin omits and . . . wise

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