2 Esdras 6:6-8

Common English Bible

⁶ then I planned these things. As they were done by me and not by another, so also the end will come by me and not through another.”

⁷ I answered, “What separates the times? When is the end of the first and the beginning of that which follows?”

⁸ He said to me: “From Abraham to Abraham, because Jacob and Esau were born from him, but Jacob’s hand held Esau’s heel from the outset.