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Ezra calls upon good messengers and archangels, prophets, apostles, martyrs, confessors, and virgins to mourn him and afterward bury him.
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Ezra petitions Yahushua the Anointed not to abandon him when his soul leaves his body, and asks that the messengers of the Accuser not meet him or injure him.
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Michael answers with an obscure assurance; the surviving Latin cannot be translated with full confidence, but it appears to confirm what has been entrusted or promised.
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The mountain trembles, and Ezra yields his ruach on the ninth day of July according to the late Christian recension.
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A later liturgical closing blesses whoever celebrates the memorial of the prophet Ezra, joining the commemoration with Yahushua the Anointed, Miryam, and Michael. This is plainly a late Christian festival layer and not an ancient …