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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?
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And he said unto me, From Abraham unto Isaac, when Jacob and Esau were born of him, Jacob's hand held first the heel of Esau.
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For Esau is the end of the world, and Jacob is the beginning of it that followeth.
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The hand of man is betwixt the heel and the hand: other question, Esdras, ask thou not.
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I answered then and said, O Lord that bearest rule, if I have found favour in thy sight,
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I beseech thee, shew thy servant the end of thy tokens, whereof thou shewedst me part the last night.
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So he answered and said unto me, Stand up upon thy feet, and hear a mighty sounding voice.
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And it shall be as it were a great motion; but the place where thou standest shall not be moved.
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And therefore when it speaketh be not afraid: for the word is of the end, and the foundation of the earth is understood.
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And why? because the speech of these things trembleth and is moved: for it knoweth that the end of these things must be changed.
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And it happened, that when I had heard it I stood up upon my feet, and hearkened, and, behold, there was a voice that spake, and the sound of it was like the sound of many waters.