2 Esdras 8:11-13

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¹¹ so that what has been fashioned may be nourished for a time, and afterward you will still guide it in your mercy. ¹² You have nurtured it in your righteousness and instructed it in your law and reproved it in your wisdom. ¹³ You put it to death as your creation and make it live as your work.^(A)