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2 Esdras 14:40-48 Common English Bible (CEB)

40. I took it and drank, and when I had drunk it my heart poured forth understanding, and wisdom increased in my heart, for my spirit retained memory.

41. My mouth was opened and wasn’t shut anymore.

42. The Most High, moreover, gave understanding to the five men, and they wrote in turns what was dictated, in characters that they didn’t know, and they sat for forty days. They wrote by day,

43. but by night they ate bread; however, I spoke by day and wasn’t silent by night.

44. Ninety-four scrolls were written in the forty days.

45. Then when the forty days were completed, the Most High said to me, "Make public the ones you wrote first so that the worthy and unworthy may read them.

46. But keep the last seventy so that you may transmit them to the wise among your people.

47. In these are the fountains of understanding, the source of wisdom, and the river of knowledge."

48. And so I did.

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