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Apocrypha · Chapter 17 of 87

II Baruch 17

Syriac Apocalypse

And the Lord answered and said unto me: 'With the Most High account is not taken of much time nor of a few years.

2For what did it profit Adam that he lived nine hundred and thirty years, and transgressed that which he was commanded?

3Therefore the multitude of time that he lived did not profit him, but brought death and cut off the years of those who were born from him.

4Or wherein did Moses suffer loss in that he lived only one hundred and twenty years, and, inasmuch as he was subject to Him who formed him, brought the law to the seed of Jacob, and lighted a lamp for the nation of Israel?'

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About II Baruch

An apocryphal or pseudepigraphal text — outside the canon of the Western churches, yet widely circulated among ancient Jews and Christians. Published here from a public-domain translation, edited for continuous reading.