a 1.1 Other ancient authorities read The second book

* 1.1 1 Chr 6.4–14; Ezra 7.1–5; 1 Esd 8.1, 2

* 1.5 Isa 58.1

* 1.6 Jer 5.19; 7.9; Hos 3.1

* 1.7 Ex 20.2; Mic 6.4

b 1.8 Other ancient authorities read and shake out

* 1.8 Ezra 9.3; Ezek 2.3; 5.7

* 1.9 Mt 17.17

* 1.10 Ex 14.27, 28; Ps 135.10

c 1.11 Other ancient authorities read Did I not destroy the city of Bethsaida because of you and to the south burn two cities . . . ?

* 1.11 Josh 12.1–24; Ezek 26.3

* 1.13 Ex 3.10; 4.14

* 1.14 Ex 13.21; Jer 2.32; 1 Cor 10.1

d 1.15 Other ancient authorities lack Almighty

* 1.15 Ex 16.13; Num 11.31; Ps 78.27, 28

e 1.16 Other ancient authorities read I sank your pursuer with his army in the sea, but still the people complain about their own destruction.

* 1.18 Ex 14.12; Num 14.2, 3

* 1.19 Ex 16.14, 15; Ps 78.25; Wis 16.20; Jn 6.31

f 1.20 Other ancient authorities read I made for you trees with leaves

* 1.20 Ex 17.6; Wis 11.4; Bar 5.8; 1 Cor 10.4

g 1.21 Other ancient authorities add the Hittites

h 1.21 Other ancient authorities read and their children

* 1.21 Gen 34.30; Ex 3.8; Judg 1.5

i 1.22 Other ancient authorities lack Almighty

* 1.22 Ex 15.23

* 1.23 Ex 15.25

* 1.24 Ex 32.8, 10; Mt 21.43; Acts 13.46

* 1.25 2 Chr 15.2; 24.20

* 1.26 Isa 1.15; 59.7; Rom 3.15

* 1.29 Jer 24.7; Zech 8.8; Heb 8.10

* 1.30 Mt 23.37; Lk 13.34

j 1.31 Other ancient authorities read I did not command for you

k 1.31 Other ancient authorities lack of the flesh

* 1.31 Isa 1.13, 14

l 1.32 Other ancient authorities read the bodies of the apostles

* 1.32 2 Chr 36.15, 16; 2 Esd 2.1; Lk 11.50, 51

* 1.33 Job 21.18; Ps 1.4; 83.13; Mt 23.38

m 1.34 Other ancient authorities lack with you

* 1.34 Deut 28.18; 2 Esd 2.6

* 1.35 Isa 52.15; Rom 15.21

n 1.36 Other ancient authorities read their iniquities

o 1.37 Other ancient authorities read The apostles bear witness to the coming people with joy

* 1.37 Jn 20.29; 1 Pet 1.8; 1 Jn 4.20

p 1.38 Other ancient authorities read brother

* 1.38 Bar 4.36, 37

* 1.39 Sir 49.10; Mt 8.11

q 1.40 Other ancient authorities read and Jacob, Elijah and Enoch, Zechariah and Hosea, Amos, Joel, Micah, Obadiah, Zephaniah, 40Nahum, Jonah, Mattia (or Mattathias), Habakkuk, and twelve angels with flowers

* 2.1 Deut 4.20; Am 2.10; Mic 6.4; 2 Esd 1.7, 32

* 2.2 vv 17, 30; Bar 4.8, 12, 19

r 2.3 Other ancient authorities read in his sight

* 2.4 Bar 4.17, 19, 21

* 2.6 2 Esd 1.34

* 2.7 Lev 26.33; Deut 4.27; Ezek 12.15

* 2.8 Gen 19.24; Jude 7

s 2.9 Other ancient authorities read Gomorrah, whose land descends to hell

t 2.10 Other ancient authorities add have prepared for them to eat, and I

* 2.12 Prov 3.18; 2 Esd 8.52; Rev 22.14

u 2.13 Other ancient authorities read Seek

* 2.13 Mt 24.22; 25.34

* 2.15 Deut 7.6; Isa 60.8

* 2.16 Ezek 37.12, 13; Jn 5.28, 29

* 2.18 Mt 16.14; Rev 22.2

* 2.19 Ex 3.8

* 2.20 Isa 1.17; 58.7; Mt 25.36

v 2.22 Other ancient authorities add Watch over your infants. Let enslaved and free alike be joyful, and your whole company will be happy

w 2.23 Other ancient authorities read When I find your dead, I will raise them; I will watch for signs

* 2.23 Tob 1.17, 18; Mt 19.28

* 2.24 Ex 14.14; Isa 30.15

* 2.27 Jn 16.20, 22

* 2.28 Isa 54.17

x 2.29 Lat hands will cover

y 2.29 Other ancient authorities read All tremble because of me; my eyes see Gehenna

* 2.30 vv 2, 15, 17

* 2.33 Ex 3.1; Deut 4.10, 15; Sir 48.7

* 2.34 Mt 11.2, 9; Jn 10.11; Heb 10.37

* 2.35 Isa 60.19, 20; Rev 21.23

z 2.36 Other ancient authorities read I testify that my savior has been commissioned by the Lord

* 2.36 v 39; 1 Chr 29.15

* 2.37 1 Thess 2.12; 1 Pet 5.10

* 2.38 2 Esd 6.5; Rev 7.4

* 2.39 Isa 61.10

* 2.40 Isa 61.10; Rev 3.5

* 2.41 2 Esd 4.36; Eph 1.4; Rev 6.11

* 2.42 Rev 7.9

* 2.43 v 46; Rev 2.10; 4.4

* 2.44 Rev 7.13, 14

* 2.45 1 Cor 15.53, 54; Rev 2.10; 4.4; 7.9

a 2.47 Other ancient authorities read to praise and glorify the Lord

* 2.47 Mt 10.32; Lk 12.8; Rev 3.5

* 3.1 2 Kings 25.8–11; Dan 4.5

b 3.4 Other ancient authorities read formed

c 3.4 Syr Ethiop Georg: Lat people or world

* 3.5 Gen 2.7; Acts 17.25; 1 Cor 15.45

* 3.6 Gen 2.8

* 3.7 Gen 2.17; 3.19; 6.3; 2 Esd 7.11

* 3.8 Gen 6.11, 12; Acts 14.16

* 3.9 Gen 7.10

* 3.11 Gen 8.1; 1 Pet 3.20; 2 Pet 2.5

* 3.13 Gen 12.1; 17.5

* 3.14 Gen 15.12; 2 Chr 20.7

* 3.15 Gen 17.7; 21.2; 25.25, 26; Rom 9.6–8

* 3.16 Gen 27.39; Mal 1.2, 3; Rom 9.13

* 3.17 Ex 19.1; Deut 4.10

d 3.18 Syr Ethiop Arab 1 Georg: Lat set fast

* 3.18 Ex 19.18; 2 Sam 22.10; Ps 77.16

* 3.19 Ex 19.16, 18; Ps 18.7–15

* 3.20 2 Esd 4.30, 31; 7.48, 118

* 3.21 2 Esd 4.30; 7.48

* 3.22 Deut 29.18; 2 Esd 8.53; Rom 7.7–13

* 3.23 1 Sam 16.11–13

* 3.24 2 Sam 7.5, 12, 13; 1 Chr 29.14, 16

e 3.29 Ethiop Arab 1 Arm: Lat Syr in this thirtieth year

* 3.30 Jer 12.1; Mal 3.15

f 3.31 Syr; compare Ethiop: Lat how this way should be forsaken

* 3.34 Job 31.6; Dan 5.27; Rev 6.5

* 3.36 Acts 10.35

* 4.1 2 Esd 5.20; 7.1; 10.28

* 4.2 v 11; 2 Esd 5.34

* 4.3 v 5

g 4.5 Syr Ethiop Arab 1 Arab 2 Georg a measure

* 4.5 Prov 30.4; Isa 40.12

h 4.7 Syr Compare Ethiop Arab 2 Arm: Lat lacks of Hades, or which are the entrances

* 4.7 Job 38.16; 2 Esd 7.36, 123; 8.52

* 4.8 Rom 10.6, 7

* 4.9 Eccl 11.5; Wis 9.16; Jn 3.12

i 4.11 Syr Ethiop add For the way of the Most High is created immeasurable

j 4.11 Syr Ethiop the way of the incorruptible?

k 4.11 Syr Ethiop Arab 1: Meaning of Lat uncertain

* 4.11 v 2; Ezek 1.28; 3.23

* 4.12 2 Esd 7.46, 47

* 4.13 2 Chr 25.18

* 4.16 Judg 9.15

l 4.17 Lat lacks was in vain

* 4.17 Job 38.8, 10, 11; Ps 104.9; Jer 5.22

* 4.19 Gen 1.9

m 4.21 Arab 2 Arm Georg those who are

* 4.21 Isa 55.8, 9; Jn 3.31; 1 Cor 2.13–15

n 4.22 Syr Ethiop Arm Georg: Meaning of Lat uncertain

* 4.23 Ps 79.4; Bar 2.4; 3.8; 2 Esd 3.31–36

o 4.24 Lat mss Syr Ethiop Arab 1 Georg: Lat terror

* 4.24 Job 4.19; Ps 109.23; Jas 4.14

p 4.25 Ethiop adds holy

* 4.25 Josh 7.9

q 4.26 Syr: Lat live

* 4.26 2 Esd 6.20; 1 Cor 7.31

* 4.27 1 Jn 5.19

* 4.30 2 Esd 3.20–22; 7.48; Mt 3.12; 13.30, 39; Rev 14.15

r 4.33 Syr Ethiop: Meaning of Lat uncertain

* 4.33 2 Esd 7.12; Rev 6.10

s 4.34 Syr Ethiop Arab Arm: Meaning of Lat uncertain

* 4.34 2 Esd 5.44; 6.34; Heb 10.37; 2 Pet 3.9

t 4.35 Syr Ethiop Arab 2 Georg: Lat How long do I hope thus?

* 4.35 v 41; 2 Esd 5.9, 37; 7.32; Rev 6.9, 10

u 4.36 Syr Ethiop Arab 2: Lat number of seeds

* 4.36 2 Esd 2.41; 5.43; 1 Thess 4.16; Rev 6.11

* 4.37 Wis 11.20

* 4.38 2 Esd 7.17

* 4.41 v 35; 2 Esd 5.9, 37; 7.32

* 4.44 2 Esd 5.56; 6.11; 8.42; 12.7

* 4.45 v 50

* 4.50 v 45; 2 Esd 14.11, 12

* 4.52 2 Esd 5.1, 13; 6.12; 7.26; 8.63

v 5.1 Syr Georg Ethiop: Meaning of Lat uncertain

* 5.1 2 Esd 4.52; Lk 21.26

w 5.4 Ethiop three months; Arm the third vision; Georg the third day; Arab 1 three signs

* 5.4 Zech 14.7

x 5.5 Syr Georg Arab 1 Arab 2 Arm; Ethiop and the stars shall fall: Meaning of Lat uncertain

* 5.5 Hab 2.11; Lk 19.40

y 5.7 Cn: Lat fish, and it shall make its voice heard by night, which the many have not known, but all shall hear its voice.

* 5.9 2 Esd 6.24; Mt 10.21; Jas 3.11, 12

* 5.13 vv 1, 20; 2 Esd 4.52; 6.31, 35

* 5.14 v 22; 2 Esd 12.5

* 5.15 Dan 10.10, 11; 2 Esd 10.30

* 5.16 Neh 2.2

* 5.18 Zech 11.16, 17; Jn 10.12

* 5.19 2 Esd 6.31, 35

* 5.20 2 Esd 6.31, 35

* 5.21 2 Esd 6.36, 37; 9.27

* 5.22 v 14; 2 Esd 6.36, 37; 9.27

* 5.23 Ps 80.8; 2 Esd 9.21; Jn 15.1

z 5.24 Syr: Lat pit

* 5.24 Deut 11.12; Song 2.1, 2; Hos 14.5

* 5.25 Deut 12.11; Ps 46.4

* 5.26 Ps 74.1, 19; 79.13; Jn 1.29

* 5.27 Deut 7.8

a 5.28 Syr Ethiop Arab: Lat prepared

* 5.28 Lev 26.33; 2 Esd 4.23; 6.57

* 5.30 2 Sam 24.14; Sir 2.17

* 5.31 2 Esd 4.1; 7.1

* 5.33 2 Esd 8.47

* 5.34 2 Esd 4.2; 12.4

* 5.35 Job 3.11; Jer 20.17

* 5.36 Sir 1.2

* 5.37 2 Esd 4.35

* 5.38 v 23; Dan 2.11; 2 Esd 4.38

* 5.39 Jer 1.6

* 5.40 Eph 3.19

b 5.42 Or crown

* 5.43 2 Esd 2.41; 4.36

* 5.44 2 Esd 4.34; 6.34

c 5.45 Syr Ethiop Arab 1: Meaning of Lat uncertain

d 5.45 Syr: Lat lacks If . . . one time

* 5.48 2 Esd 10.10–14

* 5.49 Gen 18.12, 13; Lk 1.18

* 5.50 v 48

* 5.52 Gen 6.4; Num 13.33; 1 Sam 17.4; 2 Sam 21.16–22

* 5.54 Gen 6.4; Num 13.33

* 5.56 2 Esd 4.44; 6.18; 9.2

e 6.1 Meaning of Lat uncertain: Compare Syr The beginning is by the hand of humankind, but the end is by my own hands. For as before the land of the world existed there, and before; Ethiop: At first by the Son of Man, and afterwards I myself. For before the earth and the lands were created, and before

* 6.1 Gen 1.1; Prov 8.23–25

f 6.3 Or earthquakes

* 6.3 v 44; Heb 12.22

* 6.4 v 41; Gen 1.1, 6, 7; 1 Chr 28.2

* 6.5 2 Esd 2.38; Mt 6.20

* 6.6 Prov 8.22–30

g 6.8 Syr: Lat to Abraham

* 6.8 Gen 17.5; 25.26; Hos 12.3

h 6.10 Syr: Meaning of Lat uncertain

* 6.11 2 Esd 4.44

* 6.12 2 Esd 5.1–13

* 6.13 v 17; Ezek 2.1, 2; Dan 8.18; 10.6; 2 Esd 10.33

* 6.14 v 29

i 6.17 Lat many

* 6.17 v 13; Ezek 1.24; 43.2; Rev 1.15; 14.2

* 6.18 2 Esd 5.56; 9.2

* 6.19 Isa 40.2; Jer 16.18

j 6.20 Syr: Lat lacks my judgment

* 6.20 Dan 7.10; 2 Esd 4.26; Rev 20.12

* 6.23 Am 3.6; Zech 9.14; Mt 24.31; 1 Cor 15.52

* 6.24 2 Esd 5.9; Mt 10.21, 22; 24.10; Lk 21.26

* 6.25 2 Esd 9.8; Mt 10.22

k 6.26 Syr Compare Ethiop Arab 1 Arm: Lat lacks earth’s

* 6.26 Mt 16.28; Mk 9.1; Lk 9.27; Jn 8.52

* 6.28 2 Esd 7.34, 113

l 6.30 Syr Compare Ethiop: Meaning of Lat uncertain

m 6.31 Syr Ethiop Arab 1 Arm: Lat adds by day

* 6.31 2 Esd 5.13, 20; 13.56

* 6.32 Dan 10.12; 2 Esd 10.39

* 6.33 Josh 1.9; Dan 9.23; 2 Esd 7.44

* 6.34 1 Sam 12.21; 2 Esd 4.34; 5.44

* 6.35 2 Esd 5.13, 20; 9.23

* 6.36 2 Esd 5.21; 9.27

* 6.37 2 Esd 5.21; 9.27

* 6.38 Gen 1.1; Sir 42.15

n 6.39 Syr Ethiop: Lat was not yet from you

* 6.39 Gen 1.2; 2 Esd 7.30

* 6.40 Gen 1.3; Ps 135.7

* 6.41 v 4; Gen 1.6

* 6.42 vv 50–52; Gen 1.9

* 6.44 v 3; Gen 1.11, 12

* 6.45 Gen 1.14–16

* 6.47 vv 50, 52; Gen 1.20

o 6.49 Syr Ethiop: Lat lacks that you created

p 6.49 Other Lat authorities read Enoch

* 6.49 Job 40.15; 41.1; Ps 74.14

* 6.50 v 42

q 6.51 Other Lat authorities read Enoch

* 6.51 v 42; Job 40.15; Ps 50.10

* 6.52 v 42; Ps 74.14

* 6.53 Gen 1.24

* 6.54 Gen 1.26; Wis 9.2

r 6.55 Syr Ethiop Arab 2: Lat the firstborn world

* 6.55 v 59; 2 Esd 7.11; 8.44

* 6.56 Isa 40.15, 17

* 6.57 Isa 40.17; 2 Esd 4.23; 5.28

s 6.58 Lat lacks for you

* 6.58 Ex 4.22; Hos 11.1

* 6.59 v 55; Ps 74.10

* 7.1 2 Esd 4.1; 5.31

* 7.5 Mt 7.14; Lk 13.24

* 7.7 2 Esd 8.8; Mt 7.14; Lk 13.24

* 7.11 2 Esd 3.7; 6.55

* 7.12 Job 5.7; 14.1; 2 Esd 4.33

* 7.13 Gen 2.9

* 7.14 Mt 7.14

* 7.17 Deut 4.1; 6.24; 8.1; 2 Esd 4.38

* 7.18 Rom 8.18, 24; 2 Cor 4.17, 18

t 7.19 Other ancient authorities read God; Ethiop Georg the only One

* 7.19 2 Esd 4.34; 5.44

u 7.21 Other ancient authorities read God

* 7.21 Deut 30.15; Acts 10.35; Rom 2.13–15

* 7.22 2 Kings 17.15; Rom 1.21

* 7.23 2 Esd 8.58

* 7.24 Num 15.31

* 7.25 Mt 13.12; Mk 4.25; Lk 8.18; 2 Cor 9.6

v 7.26 Arm: Lat Syr that the bride shall appear, even the city appearing

* 7.26 2 Esd 4.52; Rev 21.2

* 7.27 2 Esd 6.25

w 7.28 Syr Arab 1: Ethiop my Messiah; Arab 2 the Messiah; Arm the Messiah of God; Lat my son Jesus

* 7.28 2 Esd 13.32, 37, 52; 14.9

x 7.29 Arm all who have continued in faith and in patience

* 7.29 Dan 9.26

* 7.30 2 Esd 6.39

* 7.32 Isa 26.19; Dan 12.2; Jn 5.28, 29

y 7.33 Lat shall gather together

* 7.33 Dan 7.9, 10; Mt 25.31; Lk 13.25

* 7.34 2 Esd 6.28

* 7.35 Eccl 12.14; 2 Esd 13.56; Mt 16.27

z 7.36 Syr Ethiop: Lat place

* 7.36 v 38; 2 Esd 4.7; 6.2; Rev 20.14, 15

* 7.38 v 36

* 7.39 v 42

a 7.41 Or storm

* 7.42 Isa 60.19, 20; Rev 22.5

* 7.44 v 104; 2 Esd 6.33; 13.53, 56

b 7.45 Syr: Lat And I answered, “I said then, O Lord, and

* 7.45 Ps 1.1, 2; 119.2

* 7.46 2 Esd 8.17, 35

* 7.47 2 Esd 8.1; 9.15

* 7.48 v 92; 2 Esd 3.20–22; 4.30, 31

c 7.49 Syr Arab 1 Georg: Lat Ethiop lack Ezra

* 7.50 2 Esd 8.1

d 7.52 Arab 1: Meaning of Lat Syr Ethiop uncertain

* 7.54 2 Esd 8.2; 10.9

* 7.55 2 Esd 8.2

e 7.60 Syr Arab 1: Lat creation

* 7.60 2 Esd 8.39

* 7.61 v 131; 2 Esd 8.38

* 7.63 Eccl 4.3

f 7.68 Syr defiled with

* 7.69 v 117

* 7.70 Mt 20.23; 25.34, 41; Mk 10.40

* 7.71 v 64

* 7.72 vv 21–24

* 7.74 Rom 2.4; 2 Pet 3.9

* 7.75 Isa 65.17; Mt 19.28; Acts 3.21; Rev 21.1, 5

* 7.77 Tob 4.9; Mt 6.20; Lk 12.33

* 7.78 v 91; Eccl 12.7

* 7.80 vv 85, 95, 101

* 7.83 Wis 5.2; Lk 16.23

* 7.85 vv 80, 95, 101

g 7.86 Cn: Meaning of Lat uncertain

h 7.87 Syr Ethiop: Meaning of Lat uncertain

i 7.88 Lat the corruptible vessel

j 7.89 Syr Ethiop: Meaning of Lat uncertain

* 7.89 1 Cor 15.30; Jas 4.12

* 7.91 v 78

* 7.92 v 48

* 7.93 Rev 14.10

* 7.94 Mt 10.32; Lk 12.8; Rev 3.5

* 7.95 vv 32, 80, 85, 101; 2 Esd 4.35

* 7.96 Rom 7.24; 8.18; 1 Cor 15.53, 54

* 7.97 v 125; Dan 12.3; Mt 13.43

* 7.98 1 Jn 3.2; Rev 22.4, 12

k 7.99 Syr: Meaning of Lat uncertain

* 7.101 vv 80, 85, 95

* 7.102 2 Esd 4.44

l 7.104 Lat bold

m 7.104 Syr Ethiop Arm: Lat to understand

* 7.104 v 44; Joel 3.14

n 7.105 Syr Ethiop: Lat lacks on that . . . another

* 7.105 Ezek 18.20; Gal 6.7, 8

* 7.106 Gen 18.23–32; Ex 32.11–13

* 7.107 Josh 7.6–9

o 7.108 Syr Ethiop Arab 1: Lat Arab 2 Arm lack in the days of Saul

* 7.108 1 Sam 7.9; 2 Sam 24.17; 1 Kings 8.22; 2 Chr 6.13

* 7.109 1 Kings 17.21; 18.42; Jas 5.18

* 7.110 2 Kings 19.15–19; Isa 37.15–20

p 7.112 Syr Ethiop Georg: Lat lacks of God

q 7.112 Syr: Lat lacks not

r 7.113 Syr Ethiop: Lat lacks the beginning

* 7.113 2 Esd 6.27, 28; 1 Cor 15.53, 54

* 7.114 v 34

s 7.115 Syr Ethiop: Lat overwhelm

* 7.115 v 128; Rev 3.5

* 7.116 2 Esd 3.5; 6.53, 54

* 7.117 v 69; Eccl 2.22, 23; 2 Esd 4.12

* 7.118 v 11; 2 Esd 3.21; 4.30; Rom 5.18

* 7.119 2 Esd 8.31; Rom 6.23

* 7.123 2 Esd 4.7; Rev 2.7; 22.2

* 7.125 v 97; Lam 4.8; Mt 13.43

* 7.127 Eph 6.10–17; 1 Tim 6.12

t 7.128 Syr Ethiop Arab 1: Lat what I say

* 7.129 Deut 30.19

* 7.130 2 Esd 1.32

u 7.131 Syr: Lat there was not

* 7.131 vv 60, 61; Lk 15.7, 10

* 7.134 Wis 11.24, 26; Rom 2.4

v 7.135 Or he is ready to give according to requests

* 7.138 Ps 130.3; 143.2

w 7.139 Lat contempts

* 7.139 Ps 51.1, 9; Isa 43.25; 44.22; Acts 3.19

* 8.1 vv 3, 55; 2 Esd 7.47; 9.15; Mt 7.14; Lk 13.24

* 8.2 2 Esd 7.54; 10.9

* 8.3 v 1

x 8.4 Syr: Lat release

y 8.5 Syr: Meaning of Lat uncertain

* 8.5 1 Cor 15.32

z 8.6 Syr: Lat place

* 8.6 2 Esd 9.31; Mt 13.23; Mk 4.20, 26, 27; Lk 8.15

* 8.7 Isa 45.9; 64.8

a 8.8 Lat what you have formed

* 8.8 Ps 139.13–16; 2 Esd 7.7

* 8.13 Rom 8.11, 13; Col 3.5

b 8.14 Syr: Lat will with a light command

* 8.14 Job 10.8

* 8.17 2 Esd 7.46

c 8.18 Syr: Lat but

* 8.18 v 61; Mal 3.5; Jas 5.9; Rev 22.12

d 8.19 Syr Ethiop: Lat beginning of Ezra’s words

* 8.19 2 Esd 6.26; 14.9, 36–48

e 8.20 Or you who abide forever

f 8.20 Another Lat text reads heavens

* 8.21 Isa 6.2

g 8.22 Syr: Lat they whose service takes the form of wind and fire

* 8.22 Ps 104.4; Heb 1.7

h 8.23 Arab 2: Lat truth bears witness

* 8.23 2 Sam 22.16; Ps 18.15; 74.15; 104.32; Nah 1.4, 5

* 8.27 Gen 18.23–25

* 8.28 Prov 1.7

i 8.29 Syr have received the brightness of your law

j 8.31 Syr Ethiop: Meaning of Lat uncertain

* 8.31 v 36; 2 Esd 7.119

* 8.32 Titus 3.5

* 8.33 2 Esd 7.77; 9.7; 13.23; Rom 2.6, 10

* 8.35 Ps 14.2, 3

* 8.36 v 31

* 8.38 Gen 6.5; 2 Esd 7.61; 9.12

* 8.39 2 Esd 7.60; 13.56

k 8.41 Syr Ethiop will live; Lat will be saved

* 8.42 2 Esd 4.44

l 8.43 Cn: Compare Syr Arab 1 Arm Georg 2: Meaning of Lat uncertain

* 8.44 Gen 1.26, 27; 2 Esd 6.55

m 8.45 Ethiop Arab Compare Syr: Lat lacks O Lord

* 8.45 Joel 2.17; Add Esth 13.15

n 8.47 Syr Ethiop: Lat brought yourself near

* 8.50 v 63; 2 Esd 10.59; 12.23, 24; 2 Tim 3.2

* 8.51 v 62; 2 Esd 4.36

o 8.52 Syr Ethiop: Lat allowed

* 8.52 2 Esd 2.12; 7.26; 10.27; Heb 11.16; Rev 22.14

p 8.53 Lat lacks of evil

q 8.53 Syr Ethiop Arm: Lat lacks death

r 8.53 Syr: Lat Hades and corruption have fled into oblivion; or corruption has fled into Hades to be forgotten

* 8.53 2 Esd 2.38; Rev 20.14

* 8.54 Rev 21.4

* 8.56 2 Esd 9.11

* 8.58 Ps 14.1; 53.1; 2 Esd 7.23

s 8.59 Syr: Lat will receive

* 8.59 Ezek 18.22; Wis 1.13; Lk 16.24

* 8.61 v 18

* 8.62 2 Esd 7.44

* 8.63 v 50; 2 Esd 4.52; 5.1

* 9.2 2 Esd 5.56; 6.18; Mt 24.33; Mk 13.29; Lk 21.31

* 9.3 Mt 24.7; Mk 13.8; Lk 21.10, 11

* 9.4 Mt 24.33; Mk 13.29; Lk 21.31

t 9.5 Syr: Ethiop is in the word; meaning of Lat uncertain

u 9.6 Syr: Lat Ethiop in effects

* 9.7 2 Esd 8.33; 13.23; Rom 3.28

* 9.8 2 Esd 6.25; 12.34; 13.48

* 9.9 Wis 5.2

* 9.10 Lk 16.25

v 9.12 Or me

* 9.12 2 Esd 8.38, 56; Heb 12.17

w 9.13 Syr: Lat saved, and whose is the age and for whose sake the age was made and when

* 9.13 1 Cor 3.22

* 9.15 2 Esd 7.47; 8.1

* 9.17 1 Cor 3.12–15

x 9.19 Cn: Lat law

* 9.19 Ps 23.5; 78.19

y 9.20 Cn: Lat devices that

* 9.20 Gen 6.12

z 9.21 Lat them

a 9.21 Syr Ethiop Arab 1: Lat tribe

* 9.21 Mal 3.17; 2 Esd 5.23

* 9.23 2 Esd 6.35

* 9.24 2 Esd 10.32, 51; 12.51

b 9.26 Syr Ethiop Arpad; Arm Ardab

* 9.27 2 Esd 5.21; 6.36, 37

* 9.28 2 Esd 14.41

* 9.29 Ex 19.9; 24.10; Deut 4.12; Jer 2.6

* 9.31 2 Esd 8.6

c 9.32 Lat my

* 9.32 v 37; 2 Esd 14.30; Acts 7.53

* 9.36 vv 19, 33; Rom 7.10

* 9.37 v 32; Isa 40.8; Mt 5.18; Lk 16.17

d 9.38 Syr Arab Arm: Lat I looked about me with my eyes

* 9.38 Josh 7.6; Esth 4.1; Jdt 4.11; 2 Esd 10.41, 44

* 9.39 2 Esd 10.5

* 9.43 2 Esd 10.45

* 9.44 1 Sam 1.10, 11

e 9.45 Lat all my fellow citizens

* 9.45 Lk 1.48, 58

* 9.47 Tob 8.19; 11.18; Mt 22.2

f 10.2 Lat all my fellow citizens

* 10.2 Job 2.11; Jn 11.19

* 10.4 v 18

* 10.5 2 Esd 9.39

* 10.7 Gal 4.26

g 10.8 Syr adds but we, the whole world, for our mother

* 10.9 2 Esd 7.54; 8.2

* 10.10 Wis 7.1; 2 Esd 9.15

* 10.12 Gen 3.16; Jn 16.21

* 10.14 Gen 3.16; Jn 16.21

* 10.16 1 Sam 3.18; Ps 145.17

* 10.18 v 4

* 10.21 2 Chr 36.19; Lam 2.7; 2 Esd 12.48

h 10.22 Ethiop free men

i 10.22 Syr our seers

* 10.22 Isa 24.8; Lam 5.10–18; Ezek 7.21; 1 Macc 1.21

* 10.23 Ps 106.41; Jer 22.24; Hag 2.23; Lk 1.71

j 10.25 Syr Ethiop Arab 1: Lat lacks I was too . . . terrified. While

k 10.27 Lat: Syr Ethiop Arab 1 Arab 2 Arm but there was an established city

* 10.27 vv 42, 44; Rev 21.10, 14

* 10.28 2 Esd 4.1

* 10.29 Dan 9.20, 21

* 10.30 Dan 8.17, 18; 2 Esd 5.14, 15; Rev 1.17

* 10.32 2 Esd 9.24

* 10.33 2 Esd 6.13

l 10.34 Syr Ethiop Arab: Lat die to no purpose

m 10.35 Other ancient authorities read have heard

* 10.36 Sir 34.2

* 10.38 2 Esd 12.36

* 10.39 2 Esd 6.32

* 10.41 v 49; 2 Esd 9.38

n 10.42 Lat: Syr Ethiop Arab 1 Arab 2 Arm an established city

* 10.42 v 27

o 10.44 Cn: Lat an established city

* 10.44 v 27; 2 Esd 9.38

p 10.45 Syr Ethiop Arab 1 Arab 2: Most Lat mss read three

q 10.45 Cn: Lat Syr Arab Arm her

* 10.45 2 Esd 9.43

r 10.46 Syr Ethiop Arab 1 Arm: Lat three

* 10.46 1 Kings 8.62; 2 Chr 7.4

s 10.48 Or him

* 10.48 v 1

t 10.49 Lat mss Syr Ethiop Arab 1: Most Lat mss add These were the things to be opened to you

* 10.49 v 41

* 10.51 v 32; 2 Esd 9.24

* 10.53 v 32; 2 Esd 9.24

u 10.55 Other ancient authorities read and

* 10.55 Ps 48.12, 13

v 10.57 Or been named by

* 10.57 2 Esd 12.7

* 10.59 2 Esd 8.50

* 11.1 Deut 28.49; Ezek 17.3, 7; Dan 7.3, 4; 2 Esd 12.16

w 11.2 Arab 2 Arm: Lat Syr Ethiop in

x 11.2 Syr: Compare Ethiop Arab: Lat lacks the clouds and around it

* 11.2 Dan 7.2

* 11.3 vv 11, 22–24

* 11.4 v 29; 2 Esd 12.22

* 11.10 2 Esd 12.17

* 11.11 vv 3, 22, 23

* 11.13 Ps 103.16

* 11.17 2 Esd 12.15

y 11.20 Syr Arab 2 the little wings

z 11.20 Some Ethiop mss read left

* 11.22 vv 1, 3, 11, 23

* 11.23 vv 4, 11, 29; 2 Esd 12.2

* 11.24 vv 3, 26–28, 31

a 11.25 Syr: Lat underwings

* 11.25 vv 3, 31

* 11.26 vv 24, 27, 28, 31

* 11.27 vv 24, 26, 28, 31

* 11.28 vv 24, 26, 27, 31

* 11.29 vv 4, 23; 2 Esd 12.22

* 11.30 v 1

b 11.31 Syr: Lat underwings

* 11.31 vv 3, 24, 26–28, 30

* 11.32 v 40; 2 Esd 12.24

* 11.33 2 Esd 12.26

* 11.34 2 Esd 12.24

* 11.35 2 Esd 12.27, 28

* 11.37 2 Esd 12.31; Rev 5.5

* 11.39 Dan 7.3, 7

c 11.40 Syr Arab Arm: Lat Ethiop The fourth came, however, and conquered . . . and held sway . . . and for so long lived

* 11.40 v 32; Dan 7.7, 19, 23; 2 Esd 12.11, 24

* 11.45 vv 1, 3, 4, 29

d 12.2 Ethiop: Lat lacks rose up and

* 12.2 vv 21, 29, 30; 2 Esd 11.23, 24, 35

* 12.4 2 Esd 4.2; 5.34

* 12.5 2 Esd 5.14

* 12.7 2 Esd 4.44; 10.57

* 12.9 2 Esd 7.44; 8.50; 10.59; 13.14

* 12.11 Dan 7.7; 2 Esd 11.1, 40

* 12.14 2 Esd 11.19

* 12.15 2 Esd 11.17

* 12.16 2 Esd 11.1

e 12.17 Lat his

* 12.18 Deut 4.12; 2 Esd 11.10

f 12.18 Syr Arm: Lat After

g 12.18 Ethiop Arab 1 Arm: Lat Syr its beginning

h 12.19 Syr: Lat underwings

* 12.19 2 Esd 11.3, 11

* 12.21 vv 2, 29, 30; 2 Esd 11.22, 24, 25–28

* 12.22 2 Esd 11.1, 4, 24

i 12.23 Syr Ethiop Arab Arm: Lat kingdoms

j 12.23 Syr Ethiop Arm: Lat he

* 12.23 2 Esd 8.50

* 12.24 2 Esd 11.32, 40

k 12.26 Lat them

* 12.26 2 Esd 11.33

* 12.28 vv 2, 3; 2 Esd 11.35

l 12.29 Arab 1: Lat underwings

m 12.29 Syr Ethiop: Lat lacks to

* 12.29 v 21; 2 Esd 11.24

n 12.30 Lat his

* 12.30 vv 2, 21

* 12.31 2 Esd 11.37–46

o 12.32 Syr: Lat lacks of days . . . and speak

* 12.32 2 Esd 7.29; 13.37

* 12.34 2 Esd 7.33; 8.38; 9.8; 13.48

* 12.36 2 Esd 7.44

p 12.37 Ethiop Arab 1 Arab 2 Arm: Lat Syr them

* 12.37 2 Esd 14.26; Rev 1.19

* 12.38 2 Esd 14.26

* 12.39 v 51; 2 Esd 6.35; 9.23

* 12.40 2 Esd 5.16–19

* 12.42 Ps 107.30; Isa 24.13; Mic 7.1; 2 Pet 1.19

* 12.44 Ex 14.12; Neh 1.3; 2.3, 13; 2 Esd 3.2

* 12.45 1 Kings 19.4

q 12.48 Syr Ethiop: Lat your

* 12.48 2 Esd 3.2; 10.21

r 12.51 Lat he

* 12.51 v 39; 2 Esd 9.24

* 13.1 2 Esd 12.39, 51

s 13.2 Other ancient authorities read I saw a wind arise from the sea and stir up

* 13.2 Dan 7.2

t 13.3 Syr: Lat lacks the wind . . . I saw

u 13.3 Syr Ethiop Arab Arm: Lat grew strong

* 13.3 vv 25, 32; Dan 7.13; Rev 20.11

* 13.5 Rev 20.8, 9

* 13.6 vv 35, 36

* 13.10 Isa 11.4; 2 Thess 2.8; Rev 11.5

* 13.11 Ezek 28.18; Mal 4.3

* 13.12 v 39; Isa 66.20

* 13.16 v 22

* 13.19 v 22

v 13.20 Ethiop Compare Arab 2: Lat easier

w 13.20 Syr: Lat this

* 13.20 vv 16, 23; Job 7.9; 2 Esd 8.50

x 13.22 Syr Arab 1: Lat lacks and . . . not survive

* 13.22 vv 16, 19

* 13.23 v 20; 2 Esd 8.33; 9.7; 1 Jn 5.18; Rev 3.10

* 13.25 vv 3, 5

* 13.27 v 10

* 13.28 vv 5, 8, 10

* 13.30 2 Esd 12.3; Lk 21.26

* 13.31 Isa 19.2; 2 Esd 15.15; Mk 13.8

y 13.32 Syr and most Lat mss lack from the sea

* 13.32 vv 3, 5, 37; 2 Esd 5.4–9; 6.18–28; 7.28

* 13.34 v 5; Rev 19.19; 20.8

* 13.35 Ps 2.6; Rev 14.1

* 13.36 vv 6, 7; Dan 2.34; 2 Esd 8.52

* 13.37 vv 10, 11; 2 Esd 12.32

z 13.38 Syr: Lat effort and the law

* 13.38 vv 10, 11

* 13.39 v 12

a 13.40 Other Lat mss ten; Syr Ethiop Arab 1 Arm nine and a half

* 13.40 2 Kings 17.3, 6

* 13.43 Rev 9.14; 16.12

* 13.44 v 47; Ex 14.21; Josh 3.15, 16

b 13.47 Syr: Lat stops

* 13.47 v 44; Isa 11.15, 16

c 13.48 Syr: Lat lacks shall be saved

* 13.48 2 Esd 9.8; 12.34

* 13.51 vv 3, 5, 25

d 13.52 Syr: Ethiop except when his time and his day have come; Lat lacks his

* 13.52 vv 32, 37; 2 Esd 14.9; Lk 17.22, 24

* 13.54 2 Esd 6.32

* 13.55 Prov 7.4; Sir 15.2

* 13.56 2 Esd 2.35; 7.35, 44; 8.39; 14.1

* 13.58 2 Esd 14.1; Acts 17

* 14.1 2 Esd 13.56, 58

* 14.3 Ex 3.2–8

e 14.4 Syr Arab 1 Arab 2 he led

* 14.4 Ex 24.18

f 14.5 Syr Ethiop Arab Arm: Lat lacks declared to him

* 14.9 2 Esd 7.28; 8.19, 62; 13.32, 52

* 14.10 2 Esd 4.26; 6.20

g 14.11 Cn: Lat Ethiop ten

h 14.12 Syr lacks 14.11, 12: Ethiop For the world is divided into ten parts, and has come to the tenth, and half of the tenth remains. Now . . .

i 14.13 Lat lacks and . . . wise

* 14.13 v 20; 2 Kings 20.1

* 14.14 2 Cor 5.4; Heb 12.1

* 14.16 Mt 24.8; Mk 13.8

j 14.18 Syr Ethiop Arab Arm: Meaning of Lat uncertain

* 14.18 2 Esd 5.1; 11.1

k 14.19 Most Lat mss lack Let me speak

* 14.20 v 13

* 14.21 2 Esd 10.22

* 14.22 2 Esd 4.44; 2 Pet 1.21

* 14.23 vv 36, 44, 45; Ex 24.18

* 14.24 vv 37, 42

* 14.25 Ps 119.105; Prov 6.23; 20.27

* 14.26 vv 45, 46; 2 Esd 12.38

* 14.28 Deut 5.1; 6.4

* 14.29 Gen 47.4; Ex 22.21

* 14.30 2 Esd 9.32; Acts 7.53

* 14.32 Ps 7.11; 2 Macc 12.6, 41; 2 Tim 4.8

l 14.33 Lat brothers

m 14.33 Syr Ethiop Arm: Lat are among you

* 14.35 Eccl 12.14; Dan 12.1, 2; Wis 5.15

* 14.36 vv 23, 45

* 14.37 v 24

* 14.38 Ezek 2.8; 3.1, 2

* 14.41 Ezek 24.27; 2 Esd 9.28

n 14.42 Syr Compare Ethiop Arab 2 Arm: Meaning of Lat uncertain

* 14.42 v 24

o 14.44 Syr Ethiop Arab 1 Arm: Meaning of Lat uncertain

* 14.44 vv 23, 36

p 14.45 Syr Arab 1: Lat lacks twenty-four

* 14.45 vv 23, 26, 36

* 14.47 Sir 24.30, 31; Bar 3.12

q 14.48 Syr adds in the seventh year of the sixth week, five thousand years and three months and twelve days after creation. At that time Ezra was caught up, and taken to the place of those who are like him, after he had written all these things. And he was called the scribe of the knowledge of the Most High for ever and ever. Ethiop Arab 1 Arm have a similar ending

r 15.1 Chapters 15 and 16 (except 15.57–59, which has been found in Greek) are extant only in Lat

* 15.1 Num 23.5

* 15.2 Rev 22.6

s 15.4 Other ancient authorities add and all who believe shall be saved by their faith

* 15.4 Ezek 3.19; Jn 3.36

* 15.5 Ezek 14.21

* 15.6 Mt 23.32

* 15.8 Gen 4.10; Rev 6.10; 19.2

* 15.10 Ps 44.22

* 15.11 Deut 4.34; Wis 16.16

* 15.12 Isa 19.1–15; Ezek 32.2–16; 2 Esd 16.1

t 15.13 Lat lacks to grow

* 15.13 vv 35, 40

* 15.14 Rev 8.13; 12.12

* 15.15 Isa 19.2; 2 Esd 13.31

* 15.16 v 33

u 15.19 Cn: Lat shall empty

* 15.19 Deut 28.54, 55

* 15.21 vv 53, 56; Ps 79.12

* 15.22 v 8

* 15.23 Deut 32.22; 2 Esd 16.9, 15

v 15.24 Other ancient authorities read God

w 15.26 Other ancient authorities read the Lord

x 15.27 Other ancient authorities read the Lord

* 15.29 Isa 30.6

y 15.30 Other ancient authorities lack like wild boars

* 15.30 Ps 80.13

z 15.31 Cn: Lat dragon

a 15.32 Other ancient authorities read turn their face to the north

* 15.33 v 16

* 15.34 v 40

b 15.35 Meaning of Lat uncertain

* 15.35 vv 13, 39, 40; Rev 14.20

* 15.38 Dan 7.2

c 15.39 Lat that he

d 15.39 Lat star

* 15.39 vv 13, 34, 35, 40

e 15.40 Lat star

f 15.40 Or eminent person

g 15.40 Lat star

* 15.40 vv 13, 34, 35; Rev 8.7

* 15.43 v 60; Rev 18.2

h 15.44 Lat star

i 15.44 Other ancient authorities add until they destroy it to its foundations

* 15.44 v 40; Rev 18.9; 19.3

* 15.46 2 Esd 16.1; Rev 17.4

j 15.48 Other ancient authorities read devices, and you have followed after that one about to gratify her magnates and leaders so that you may be made proud and be pleased by her fornications

k 15.48 Other ancient authorities read the Lord

* 15.49 Rev 18.7, 8

* 15.50 Job 15.30; Ps 90.6; Jas 1.11

* 15.53 v 56; Rev 17.6

* 15.54 Jer 4.30; 2 Esd 16.50

l 15.58 Gk: Lat omits and highlands

* 15.58 Deut 28.53; Isa 9.20; 49.26

m 15.60 Other ancient authorities read idle or tranquil

n 15.61 Other ancient authorities read like dry straw

* 15.61 Isa 47.14; 2 Esd 16.6

* 15.63 Rev 18.15–17

* 16.1 2 Esd 15.12, 46

o 16.2 Other ancient authorities lack cloth of goats’ hair

* 16.2 2 Sam 3.31; 1 Kings 20.31; Rev 6.12

* 16.4 vv 9, 15

* 16.5 v 8

p 16.6 Other ancient authorities read fire when dry straw has been set on fire

* 16.6 Isa 31.4; 2 Esd 15.61

* 16.7 Zech 9.14

* 16.8 v 5

* 16.9 2 Esd 15.23

* 16.10 2 Sam 22.14, 15

* 16.12 2 Sam 22.8; Ezek 38.20

* 16.13 2 Sam 22.14, 15; Ps 45.5; 89.13

* 16.15 Isa 30.33; 2 Esd 15.23

* 16.16 v 7; Zech 9.14

* 16.19 2 Macc 6.12; Mt 24.8; Mk 13.8

* 16.20 Jdt 8.27; Rom 2.9; 8.35

* 16.22 1 Thess 5.3

* 16.24 2 Kings 9.37

* 16.27 Job 24.11; Isa 16.10

* 16.29 Isa 2.21; Am 5.3

* 16.30 Isa 17.6; 24.13

q 16.31 Other ancient authorities read a cluster may remain exposed

* 16.31 Ob 5

* 16.32 Am 1.11

r 16.33 Other ancient authorities read be for briers

* 16.33 Isa 7.23

* 16.34 Ps 78.63; Jer 7.34; Rev 18.23

s 16.37 Cn: Lat do not believe the gods of whom the Lord speaks

* 16.39 Isa 13.8; Jer 6.24; 50.43; Jn 16.21; 1 Thess 5.3

* 16.41 2 Esd 7.127

* 16.42 1 Cor 7.29–31

t 16.47 Other ancient authorities read therefore those who are married may know that they will produce children for captivity and famine

* 16.47 Deut 28.30–33; Am 5.11

* 16.51 Jer 4.30; 2 Esd 15.54

* 16.53 Heb 10.37

u 16.54 Other ancient authorities add or the unjust done injustice

* 16.54 Ps 140.10; Prov 25.22; Jer 2.35; 1 Jn 1.8

v 16.55 Other ancient authorities read Lord God

* 16.55 v 63; 1 Sam 16.7; Lk 16.15

* 16.56 Gen 1.1; Ps 148.5

* 16.57 Ps 147.4

* 16.58 Isa 40.12

w 16.59 Other ancient authorities read confined the world between the waters and the waters

* 16.59 Job 26.7, 10; 38.11; Ps 104.9

* 16.60 Gen 1.7; Job 9.8

* 16.61 Ps 107.35

* 16.62 Gen 2.7

x 16.63 Or breath

y 16.63 Other ancient authorities read of the Lord Almighty

* 16.64 v 54; 1 Sam 16.7; Prov 28.13

* 16.66 1 Cor 4.5

* 16.67 Mt 25.31

z 16.68 Other ancient authorities read the Lord

a 16.68 Other ancient authorities read the Lord

* 16.68 v 74; Ps 75.7

* 16.69 Acts 15.29; 1 Cor 8.10; Rev 2.14, 20

b 16.71 Meaning of Lat uncertain

c 16.72 Other ancient authorities read For people, because of their misfortunes, shall

d 16.72 Other ancient authorities read fear God

* 16.74 Prov 17.3; 2 Esd 15.53; 1 Pet 1.7

* 16.75 v 67; 2 Tim 4.18

e 16.76 Other ancient authorities read the Lord

* 16.76 Ps 48.14

* 16.77 Ps 38.4

f 16.78 Other ancient authorities read seed

* 16.78 Prov 22.5; Hos 2.6; Lk 8.7; Heb 6.8