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Take again your full number, O Zion, and close the list of your people who are clothed in white, who have fulfilled the law of the Lord.
41
The number of your children, whom you desired, is now complete; implore the Lord's authority that your people, who have been called from the beginning, may be made holy."
42
I, Ezra, saw on Mount Zion a great multitude that I could not number, and they all were praising the Lord with songs.
43
In their midst was a young man of great stature, taller than any of the others, and on the head of each of them he placed a crown, but he was more exalted than they. And I was held spellbound.
44
Then I asked an angel, "Who are these, my lord?"
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