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1 Esdras
1 Esdras, also called Greek Esdras, Greek
Ezra, or 3 Esdras, is an ancient Greek
version of the biblical Book of Ezra in use
among the early church, and many modern
Christians with varying degrees of
canonicity. First Esdras is substantially the
same as Masoretic Ezra. As part of the
Septuagint translation of the Old
Testament, it is regarded as
deuterocanonical in the churches of the
East, but apocryphal in the West. First
Esdras is found in Origen’s Hexapla. Greek
and related versions of the Bible include
both Esdras Α (English title: 1 Esdras) and
Esdras Β (Ezra–Nehemiah) in parallel.
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