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35 Recompense shall follow, and the reward shall be manifested; righteous deeds shall awake, and unrighteous deeds shall not sleep.[a] 36 The pit[b] of torment shall appear, and opposite it shall be the place of rest; and the furnace of hell[c] shall be disclosed, and opposite it the paradise of delight. 37 Then the Most High will say to the nations that have been raised from the dead, “Look now, and understand whom you have denied, whom you have not served, whose commandments you have despised.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Esdras 7:35 The passage from verse 36 to verse 105, formerly missing, has been restored to the text
  2. 2 Esdras 7:36 Syr Ethiop: Lat place
  3. 2 Esdras 7:36 Lat Syr Ethiop Gehenna

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