2 Esdras 3:15-17

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¹⁵ You made an everlasting covenant with him and promised him that you would never forsake his descendants, and you gave him Isaac, and to Isaac you gave Jacob and Esau.^{(A) 16} You set apart Jacob for yourself, but Esau you rejected, and Jacob became a great multitude.^{(B) 17} And when you led his descendants out of Egypt, you brought them to Mount Sinai.^(C)