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2 Esdras 13:37-41 World English Bible (WEB)

37. And this my Son shall rebuke the nations which are come for their wickedness, with plagues that are like to a tempest;

38. and shall taunt them to their face with their evil thoughts, and the torments wherewith they shall be tormented, which are likened to a flame: and he shall destroy them without labor by the law, which is likened to fire.

39. And whereas you saw that he gathered to him another multitude that was peaceful;

40. these are the ten tribes, which were led away out of their own land in the time of Osea the king, whom Salmananser the king of the Assyrians led away captive, and he carried them beyond the River, and they were carried into another land.

41. But they took this counsel among themselves, that they would leave the multitude of the heathen, and go forth into a further country, where never mankind lived,

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