2 Esdras 13:42
“That they might there keepe their statutes, which they neuer kept in their owne land.”
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2 Esdras 13:42 Context
40Those are the ten tribes, which were caried away prisoners out of their owne land, in the time of Osea the king, whom Salmanasar the king of Assyria ledde away captiue, and hee caried them ouer the waters, and so came they into another land. 41But they tooke this counsaile amongst themselues, that they would leaue the multitude of the heathen, and goe foorth into a further countrey, where neuer mankind dwelt, 42That they might there keepe their statutes, which they neuer kept in their owne land. 43And they entred into Euphrates by the narrow passages of the Riuer. 44For the most high then shewed signes for them, and held still the flood, till they were passed ouer.
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That they might there keep their statutes, which they never kept in their own land.
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