42 The Most High gave understanding to the five men, and they wrote by course the things that were told them, in characters which they didn’t know, and they sat forty days. Now they wrote in the day-time, and at night they ate bread. (WEB) 43 As for me, I spoke in the day, and by night I didn’t hold my tongue. (WEB) 44 So in forty days, ninety-four books were written. (WEB) 45 It came to pass, when the forty days were fulfilled, that the Most High spoke to me, saying, “The first books that you have written, publish openly, and let the worthy and unworthy read them; (WEB)
2 Esdras 14:42–45
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