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2 Esdras 7:7-10 World English Bible (WEB)

7. but the entrance thereof is narrow, and is set in a dangerous place to fall, having a fire on the right hand, and on the left a deep water:

8. and there is one only path between them both, even between the fire and the water, so small that there could but one man go there at once.

9. If this city now be given to a man for an inheritance, if the heir pass not the danger before him, how shall he receive his inheritance?

10. And I said, It is so, Lord. Then said he to me, Even so also is Israel’s portion.