2 Esdras 14:42-48

42 Moreover, the Most High gave understanding to the five men, and by turns they wrote what was dictated, using characters that they did not know. They sat forty days; they wrote during the daytime, and ate their bread at night.

43 But as for me, I spoke in the daytime and was not silent at night.

44 So during the forty days, ninety-four books were written.

45 And when the forty days were ended, the Most High spoke to me, saying, "Make public the twenty-four books that you wrote first, and let the worthy and the unworthy read them;

46 but keep the seventy that were written last, in order to give them to the wise among your people.

47 For in them is the spring of understanding, the fountain of wisdom, and the river of knowledge."

48 And I did so. <+Z>+c

Footnotes

• [a]. Syr Compare Ethiop Arab 2 Arm: Meaning of Lat uncertain
• [b]. Syr Ethiop Arab 1 Arm: Meaning of Lat uncertain
• [c]. Syr Arab 1: Lat lacks [twenty-four]
• [d]. Syr adds [in the seventh year of the sixth week, five thousand years and three months and twelve days after creation. At that time Ezra was caught up, and taken to the place of those who are like him, after he had written all these things. And he was called the scribe of the knowledge of the Most High for ever and ever]. Ethiop Arab 1 Arm have a similar ending