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And 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?"
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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.
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For Esau is the end of this age, and Jacob is the beginning of the age that follows.
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For the beginning of a man is his hand, and the end of a man is his heel; between the heel and the hand seek for nothing else, Ezra!"
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I answered and said, "O sovereign Lord, if I have found favor in thy sight,
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show thy servant the end of thy signs which thou didst show me in part on a previous night."
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He answered and said to me, "Rise to your feet and you will hear a full, resounding voice.
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And if the place where you are standing is greatly shaken
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while the voice is speaking, do not be terrified; because the word concerns the end, and the foundations of the earth will understand
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that the speech concerns them. They will tremble and be shaken, for they know that their end must be changed."
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When I heard this, I rose to my feet and listened, and behold, a voice was speaking, and its sound was like the sound of many waters.