2 Esdras 7:129

129 For this is the way of which Moses, while he was alive, spoke to the people, saying, ‘Choose life for yourself, so that you may live!’

2 Esdras 7:129 In-Context

127 He answered and said, “This is the significance of the contest that all who are born on earth shall wage:

128 if they are defeated they shall suffer what you have said, but if they are victorious they shall receive what I have said.[ai]

129 For this is the way of which Moses, while he was alive, spoke to the people, saying, ‘Choose life for yourself, so that you may live!’

130 But they did not believe him or the prophets after him, or even myself who have spoken to them.

131 Therefore there shall not be[aj] grief at their destruction, so much as joy over those to whom salvation is assured.”