2 Esdras 14:26-28

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

²⁶ And when you have finished, some things you shall make public, and some you shall deliver in secret to the wise; tomorrow at this hour you shall begin to write.’

Ezra’s Last Words to the People

²⁷ Then I went as he commanded me, and I gathered all the people together, and said, ²⁸ ‘Hear these words, O Israel.