2 Esdras 14:29

2 Esdras 14:29 Context

²⁶And when thou hast done, some things shalt thou publish, and some things shalt thou shew secretly to the wise: to morrow this hour shalt thou begin to write. ²⁷Then went I forth, as he commanded, and gathered all the people together, and said, ²⁸Hear these words, O Israel. ²⁹Our fathers at the beginning were strangers in Egypt, from whence they were delivered: ³⁰And received the law of life, which they kept not, which ye also have transgressed after them. ³¹Then was the land, even the land of Sion, parted among you by lot: but your fathers, and ye yourselves, have done unrighteousness, and have not kept the ways which the Highest commanded you. ³²And forasmuch as he is a righteous judge, he took from you in time the thing that he had given you.

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