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2 Esdras 14:43-48 Good News Bible Anglicised (GNBDC)

43. I spoke all day long, and I was not silent even at night.

44. During the forty days, 94 books were written.

45. At the end of the forty days, God Most High said to me, “You are now to make public the first 24 books that you wrote, so that everyone, whether they are worthy or not, may read them.

46. But the last seventy books that you wrote are to be held back and to be given only to those who are wise among your people,

47. because these books contain a flood of understanding, a fountain of wisdom, and a river of knowledge.”

48. Then I did as I was told.

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