2 Esdras 11:18-20

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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,