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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.
9
Now Esau is the end of this age, and Jacob is the beginning of the age that follows.
10
The beginning of a person is the hand, and the end of a person is the heel; seek for nothing else, Ezra, between the heel and the hand, Ezra!"
11
I answered and said, "O sovereign Lord, if I have found favor in your sight,
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