3 And from that day I was no longer numbered amongst them: and he set me between the two winds, between the North and the West, where the angels took the cords to measure for me the place for the elect and righteous. (ENO) 4 And there I saw the first fathers and the righteous who from the beginning dwell in that place. (ENO)
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