2 Esdras 7:9-11

Common English Bible

⁹ If that city is given to someone as an inheritance, if the heir doesn’t pass through the danger, how will the heir receive the inheritance?”

¹⁰ I said, “Indeed, Lord.”

He said to me: “So also is Israel’s portion. I indeed made the world on account of them. ¹¹ When Adam transgressed my ordinances, what had been made was judged,