2 Esdras 7:99-101

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⁹⁹ This is the order of the souls of the righteous, as henceforth is announced,^[a] and the previously mentioned are the ways of torment that those who would not give heed shall suffer hereafter.”

¹⁰⁰ Then I answered and said, “Will time therefore be given to the souls, after they have been separated from the bodies, to see what you have described to me?”

¹⁰¹ He said to me, “They shall have freedom for seven days, so that during these seven days they may see the things of which you have been told, and afterward they shall be gathered in their habitations.”^(A)