2 Esdras 14:40-42

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⁴⁰ I took it and drank, and when I had drunk it, my heart poured forth understanding, and wisdom increased in my breast, for my spirit retained its memory, ⁴¹ and my mouth was opened and was no longer closed.^{(A) 42} Moreover, the Most High gave understanding to the five men, and by turns they wrote what was dictated, using characters that they did not know.^[a] They sat forty days; they wrote during the daytime and ate their bread at night.^(B)