2 Esdras 9:34-36

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³⁴ Now this is the general rule, that when the ground has received seed or the sea a ship or any dish food or drink, and when it comes about that what was sown or what was launched or what was put in is destroyed, ³⁵ they are destroyed, but the things that held them remain, yet with us it has not been so. ³⁶ For we who have received the law and sinned will perish, as well as our hearts that received it;^(A)