34 Therefore if you will rule over your own understanding and instruct your hearts, you will be kept alive, and after death you will obtain mercy. (WEB) 35 For after death the judgment will come, when we will live again. Then the names of the righteous will become manifest, and the works of the ungodly will be declared. (WEB) 36 Let no one therefore come to me now, nor seek me for forty days.” (WEB)
2 Esdras 14:34–36
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