Why is 2 Esdras shown with the King James Bible?
2 And I said, Here am I, Lord And I stood up upon my feet.
6 These words shalt thou declare, and these shalt thou hide.
10 For the world hath lost his youth, and the times begin to wax old.
12 And there remaineth that which is after the half of the tenth part.
14 Let go from thee mortal thoughts, cast away the burdens of man, put off now the weak nature,
16 For yet greater evils than those which thou hast seen happen shall be done hereafter.
19 Then answered I before thee, and said,
27 Then went I forth, as he commanded, and gathered all the people together, and said,
28 Hear these words, O Israel.
29 Our fathers at the beginning were strangers in Egypt, from whence they were delivered:
30 And received the law of life, which they kept not, which ye also have transgressed after them.
33 And now are ye here, and your brethren among you.
36 Let no man therefore come unto me now, nor seek after me these forty days.
37 So I took the five men, as he commanded me, and we went into the field, and remained there.
41 And my mouth was opened, and shut no more.
43 As for me. I spake in the day, and I held not my tongue by night.
44 In forty days they wrote two hundred and four books.
47 For in them is the spring of understanding, the fountain of wisdom, and the stream of knowledge.