2 Esdras 12:19-21

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¹⁹ As for your seeing eight little wings^[a] clinging to its wings, this is the interpretation:^{(A) 20} Eight kings shall arise in it whose times shall be short and their years swift; ²¹ two of them shall perish when the middle of its time draws near, and four shall be kept for the time when its end approaches, but two shall be kept until the end.^(B)