2 Esdras 14:41-43

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⁴¹ and my mouth was opened and was no longer closed.^{(A) 42} Moreover, the Most High gave understanding to the five men, and by turns they wrote what was dictated, using characters that they did not know.^[a] They sat forty days; they wrote during the daytime and ate their bread at night.^{(B) 43} But as for me, I spoke in the daytime and was not silent at night.