2 Esdras 7:103-105

Revised Standard Version

¹⁰³ fathers for sons or sons for parents, brothers for brothers, relatives for their kinsmen, or friends^[a] for those who are most dear.”

¹⁰⁴ He answered me and said, “Since you have found favor in my sight, I will show you this also. The day of judgment is decisive^[b] and displays to all the seal of truth. Just as now a father does not send his son, or a son his father, or a master his servant, or a friend his dearest friend, to be ill^[c] or sleep or eat or be healed in his stead, ¹⁰⁵ so no one shall ever pray for another on that day, neither shall any one lay a burden on another;^[d] for then every one shall bear his own righteousness and unrighteousness.”