2 Esdras 2:39-41

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³⁹ Those who have departed from the shadow of this age have received glorious garments from the Lord.^{(A) 40} Take again your full number, O Zion, and close the list of your people who are clothed in white, who have fulfilled the law of the Lord.^{(B) 41} The number of your children, whom you desired, is now complete; implore the Lord’s authority that your people, who have been called from the beginning, may be made holy.”^(C)