2 Esdras 11:17-19

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¹⁷ After you no one shall rule as long as you have ruled, not even half as long.”^(A)

¹⁸ Then the third wing raised itself up and held the rule as the earlier ones had done, and it also disappeared. ¹⁹ And so it went with all the wings; they wielded power one after another and then were never seen again.