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2 Esdras 1:29

That ye would be my people, and I should be your God; that ye would be my children, and I should be your father?

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that you would be my people, and I would be your God, that you would be my children, and I would be your father?
World English Bible
GNV1560View canonical →
That ye wolde be my people, as I am your God, and that ye wolde be my children, as I am your father?
Geneva Bible (1560) Apocrypha
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