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35 and works will have their consequences. Reward will come about, righteous deeds will awake, and unrighteous deeds won’t sleep.

36 “The lake[a] of torment will appear, and across from it will be the place of rest. Hell’s[b] furnace will be displayed and across from it the delightful paradise. 37 Then the Most High will speak to the nations that have been raised: ‘Look and understand whom it is you have denied, whom you haven’t served, and whose ordinances you have despised.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Esdras 7:36 Lat manuscripts read place (locus instead of lacus).
  2. 2 Esdras 7:36 Lat Gehennae

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