For God strictly commanded those who came, even as they came, what they should do to live, and what they should observe to avoid punishment.
KJV
2 Esdras 7:21
For God hath given strait commandment to such as came, what they should do to live, even as they came, and what they should observe to avoid punishment.
Parallel Translations
For God hathe diligently admonished suche as came, so oft as they came, what they shulde do to haue life, and what they shulde obserue, to auoid punishment.