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2 Esdras 13:39-41
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
2 Esdras 13:39-41
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
39 “And as for your seeing him gather to himself another multitude that was peaceable,(A) 40 these are the nine[a] tribes that were taken away from their own land into exile in the days of King Hoshea, whom Shalmaneser, king of the Assyrians, made captives; he took them across the river, and they were taken into another land.(B) 41 But they formed this plan for themselves, that they would leave the multitude of the nations and go to a more distant region where no humans had ever lived,
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- 13.40 Other Lat mss ten; Syr Ethiop Arab 1 Arm nine and a half
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