32 But our fathers, who received the law, didn’t keep it, and didn’t observe the statutes. The fruit of the law didn’t perish, for it couldn’t, because it was yours. (WEB) 33 Yet those who received it perished, because they didn’t keep the thing that was sown in them. (WEB) 34 Behold, it is a custom that when the ground has received seed, or the sea a ship, or any vessel food or drink, and when it comes to pass that that which is sown, or that which is launched, (WEB)
2 Esdras 9:32–34
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2 Esdras 14:29–31
29 Our fathers at the beginning were foreigners in Egypt, and they were delivered from there, (WEB) 30 and received the law of life, which they didn’t keep, which you also have transgressed after them. (WEB) 31 Then the land of Zion was given to you for a possession; but you yourse… (WEB)
2 Esdras 8:42–44
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1 Corinthians 15:35–37
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2 Baruch 22:5–7
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2 Esdras 4:28–30
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1 Clement 24:3–5
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John 4:36–38
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Parables 69:6–8
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