2 Esdras 12:38-40

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

³⁸ and you shall teach them to the wise among your people, whose hearts you know are able to comprehend and keep these secrets. ³⁹ But as for you, wait here for seven days more, so that you may be shown whatever it pleases the Most High to show you.’ Then he left me.

The People Come to Ezra

⁴⁰ When all the people heard that the seven days were past and I had not returned to the city, they all gathered together, from the least to the greatest, and came to me and spoke to me, saying,