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2 Esdras 7:52

If you have just a few precious stones, will you add them to lead and clay?”

Parallel Translations

KJVView canonical →
And that the glory of the most High is kept to defend them which have led a wary life, whereas we have walked in the most wicked ways of all?
King James Version
GNV1560View canonical →
And that the glorie of the moste High shulde be kept to defende them which haue led a pacient life, if we haue walked in the wicked wayes?
Geneva Bible (1560) Apocrypha