2 Esdras 14:44
“In fourty dayes they wrote two hundred and foure bookes.”
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2 Esdras 14:44 Context
42The highest gaue vnderstanding vnto the fiue men, and they wrote the wonderfull visions of the night, that were told, which they knew not: And they sate fourty dayes, and they wrote in the day, and at night they ate bread. 43As for me I spake in the day, and held not my tongue by night: 44In fourty dayes they wrote two hundred and foure bookes. 45And it came to passe when the fourty dayes were fulfilled, that the Highest spake, saying, The first that thou hast written, publish openly, that the worthy and vnworthy may read it. 46But keepe the seuenty last, that thou mayest deliuer them onely to such as be wise, among the people.
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In forty days they wrote two hundred and four books.
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