2 Esdras 1:38-40

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³⁸‘And now, father,^[a] look with pride and see the people coming from the east; ³⁹to them I will give as leaders Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and Hosea and Amos and Micah and Joel and Obadiah and Jonah ⁴⁰and Nahum and Habakkuk, Zephaniah, Haggai, Zechariah, and Malachi, who is also called the messenger of the Lord.^[b]

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2 Esdras 1:38 Other ancient authorities read brother
2 Esdras 1:40 Other ancient authorities read and Jacob, Elijah and Enoch, Zechariah and Hosea, Amos, Joel, Micah, Obadiah, Zephaniah, ⁴⁰Nahum, Jonah, Mattia (or Mattathias), Habakkuk, and twelve angels with flowers

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