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And the next day, behold, a voice called me, saying, "Ezra, open thy mouth and drink what I give thee to drink."
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Then opened I my mouth, and behold, He reached me a full cup which was full, as it were, with water, but the color of it was like fire.
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And I took it, and drank; and when I had drunk of it, my heart uttered understanding, and wisdom grew in my breast, for my spirit strengthened my memory;
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and my mouth was opened and shut no more.
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The Highest gave understanding unto the five men, and they wrote the wonderful visions of the night that were told, which they knew not. And they sat forty days; and they wrote in the day, and at night they ate bread.
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As for me, I spoke in the day, and I held not my tongue by night.
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In forty days they wrote two hundred and four books.
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And it came to pass, when the forty days were fulfilled, that the Highest spoke, saying, "The first that thou hast written publish openly, that the worthy and unworthy may read it.
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But keep the last seventy, that thou mayest deliver them only to such as be wise among the people;
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for in them is the spring of understanding, the fountain of wisdom, and the stream of knowledge."