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And I answered and said, "What will be the dividing of the times? Or when will be the end of the first age and the beginning of the age that follows?"
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and before the present years were reckoned; and before the imaginations of those who now sin were estranged, and before those who stored up treasures of faith were sealed --
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then I planned these things, and they were made through me and not through another, just as the end shall come through me and not through another."
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And I answered and said, "What will be the dividing of the times? Or when will be the end of the first age and the beginning of the age that follows?"
8
He said to me, "From Abraham to Isaac, because from him were born Jacob and Esau, for Jacob's hand held Esau's heel from the beginning.
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For Esau is the end of this age, and Jacob is the beginning of the age that follows.
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