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2 Esdras 6:6-8
Revised Standard Version
2 Esdras 6:6-8
Revised Standard Version
6 then I planned these things, and they were made through me and not through another, just as the end shall come through me and not through another.”
The Dividing of the Times
7 And I answered and said, “What will be the dividing of the times? Or when will be the end of the first age and the beginning of the age that follows?”
8 He said to me, “From Abraham to Isaac,[a] because from him were born Jacob and Esau, for Jacob’s hand held Esau’s heel from the beginning.
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- 2 Esdras 6:8 Other authorities read Abraham
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