2 Esdras 2:45 in 1 translation
Every translation here words this verse identically, which is itself worth knowing — there is no interpretive fork to weigh.
Early modern English
Seventeenth-century wording and sentence shape. Familiar, rhythmic, and the version most quotations you have heard are taken from.
He answered and said unto me, These be they that have put off the mortal clothing, and put on the immortal, and have confessed the name of God: now are they crowned, and receive palms.
1611 / 1769 · Public domain · The Authorised Version, revised to the 1769 Blayney text. Includes the Apocrypha as printed in 1611.
The verses either side
King James text. A comparison is easier to judge when you can see the sentence the verse sits inside.
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