2 Esdras 6:7

7 Then answered I and said, "What shall be the parting asunder of the times? Or when shall be the end of the first and the beginning of it that followeth?"

2 Esdras 6:7 In-Context

5 and ere the present years were sought out, and or ever the inventions of them that now sin were turned, before they were sealed who have gathered faith for a treasure;

6 then did I consider these things, and they all were made through Me alone, and through none other. By Me also they shall be ended, and by none other."

7 Then answered I and said, "What shall be the parting asunder of the times? Or when shall be the end of the first and the beginning of it that followeth?"

8 And He said unto me, "From Abraham unto Isaac, when Jacob and Esau were born of him, Jacob's hand held from the beginning the heel of Esau.

9 For Esau is the end of the world, and Jacob is the beginning of that which followeth.