2 Esdras 7:104-106
Revised Standard Version
104 He answered me and said, “Since you have found favor in my sight, I will show you this also. The day of judgment is decisive[a] and displays to all the seal of truth. Just as now a father does not send his son, or a son his father, or a master his servant, or a friend his dearest friend, to be ill[b] or sleep or eat or be healed in his stead, 105 so no one shall ever pray for another on that day, neither shall any one lay a burden on another;[c] for then every one shall bear his own righteousness and unrighteousness.”
36 106 I answered and said, “How then do we find that first Abraham prayed for the people of Sodom, and Moses for our fathers who sinned in the desert,
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- 2 Esdras 7:104 Lat bold
- 2 Esdras 7:104 Syr Ethiop Arm: Lat understand
- 2 Esdras 7:105 Syr: Latin omits on that . . . another
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