2 Esdras 4:35-37

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³⁵ Did not the souls of the righteous in their chambers ask about these matters, saying, ‘How long are we to remain here?^[a] And when will the harvest of our reward come?’^{(A) 36} And the archangel Jeremiel answered and said, ‘When the number of those like yourselves^[b] is completed, for he has weighed the age in the balance,^{(B) 37} and measured the times by measure, and numbered the times by number, and he will not move or arouse them until that measure is fulfilled.’ ”^(C)