39 Whereas you saw that he gathered to himself another multitude that was peaceful, (WEB) 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 taken into another land. (WEB) 41 But they made this plan among themselves, that they would leave the multitude of the heathen, and go out into a more distant region, where mankind had never lived, (WEB)
2 Esdras 13:39–41
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