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2 Baruch 8

Heavenly Figure Removes Sacred Items

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1And I saw that he went into the Holy of Holies, and took from there the veils, the ephod, the altar, the mercy seat, the two tables, the holy garments of the priests, the censer, the forty-eight precious stones, and all the holy vessels of the tabernacle. And he said to the earth with a loud voice, "Earth, earth, earth, hear the word of the mighty God, and receive what I commit to you, and guard them until the last times, so that, when you are commanded, you may restore them, so that strangers may not boast over them. For the time has drawn near when Jerusalem also will be delivered up for a time, until it is said that it will be restored again forever."

2"Pull down its walls and overturn them to their foundations, lest the enemies boast and say, 'We ourselves have pulled down the wall of Zion, and we have burned the dwelling place of the mighty God.'"

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