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2 Esdras 7:138-140
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
2 Esdras 7:138-140
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
138 and he is called the giver because if he did not give out of his goodness so that those who have committed iniquities might be relieved of them, not one ten-thousandth of humankind could have life;(A) 139 and the judge because if he did not pardon those who were created by his word and blot out the multitude of their sins,[a](B) 140 there would probably be left only very few of the innumerable multitude.”
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