2 Esdras 11:18-20

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

¹⁸ Then the third wing raised itself up, and held the rule as the earlier ones had done, and it also disappeared. ¹⁹ And so it went with all the wings; they wielded power one after another and then were never seen again. ²⁰ I kept looking, and in due time the wings that followed^[a] also rose up on the right^[b] side, in order to rule. There were some of them that ruled, yet disappeared suddenly;