2 Esdras 12:38-40

Revised Standard Version

³⁸ and you shall teach them to the wise among your people, whose hearts you know are able to comprehend and keep these secrets. ³⁹ But wait here seven days more, so that you may be shown whatever it pleases the Most High to show you.” Then he left me.

The People Come to Ezra

⁴⁰ When all the people heard that the seven days were past and I had not returned to the city, they all gathered together, from the least to the greatest, and came to me and spoke to me, saying,