2 Esdras 11:4-9 Good News Bible Anglicised (GNBDC)

4. All three heads of the eagle were asleep, even the middle one, which was larger than the others.

5. While I was watching, the eagle flew up in the air and became ruler of the whole earth and all its people.

6. I saw how everything on earth was brought under the eagle's control — no one on earth was able to oppose it.

7. Then I saw the eagle stand up on its claws and say to its wings,

8. “Not all of you are to wake up at the same time; you must sleep where you are and wake up when your turn comes,

9. and the heads must wake up last.”

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