2 Esdras 14:12-14

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¹² as well as half of the tenth part; so two of its parts remain, besides half of the tenth part.^{[a] 13} Now, therefore, set your house in order, and reprove your people; comfort the lowly among them, and instruct those who are wise.^[b] And now renounce the life that is corruptible,^{(A) 14} and put away from you mortal thoughts; cast away from you the burdens of humankind, and divest yourself now of your weak nature;^(B)