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4 Baruch

No English translation of 4 Baruch was free to use, so we made one, from the Greek text J. Rendel Harris published in 1889, and we give it away. It is dedicated to the public domain (CC0 1.0): copy it, change it, publish it, sell it. The file holds Harris' Greek beside it, corrected from the scan.

“Then Abimelech cried out with a loud voice, saying: I will bless thee, O Lord, God of heaven and earth, the rest of the souls of the righteous in every place.”

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