2 Esdras 12:38-40

Common English Bible

³⁸ Teach these matters to the wise among your people, whose minds you know can grasp and keep these secrets. ³⁹ But wait here yet another seven days so that you may be shown whatever it pleases the Most High to show you.” ⁴⁰ Then he left me.

When the whole people heard that seven days had passed and I hadn’t returned to the city, they all gathered, from the smallest to the biggest. They came and said to me,