2 Esdras 7:59

59 For this is the life whereof Moses spoke unto the people while he lived, saying, `Choose thee life, that thou mayest live!'

2 Esdras 7:59 In-Context

57 Then he answered me and said, "This is the condition of the battle which man who is born upon the earth shall fight:

58 that if he be overcome he shall suffer as thou hast said, but if he get the victory he shall receive the thing that I say.

59 For this is the life whereof Moses spoke unto the people while he lived, saying, `Choose thee life, that thou mayest live!'

60 Nevertheless they believed not him, nor yet the prophets after him, no, nor me, who have spoken unto them,

61 that there should not be such heaviness in their destruction as shall be joy over them that are persuaded to salvation."