2 BARUCH 42
42:1 And YAHWEH answered and said to me:
42:2 Also these things I shall show you. As for what you said: "To whom and to how many will these things be?" The tov that was mentioned before will be to those who have believed, and the opposite of these things will be to those who have despised.
42:3 And as for that which you said with regard to those who have drawn near and to those who have withdrawn, this is the explanation.
42:4 As for those who have first subjected themselves and have withdrawn later and who mingled themselves with the seed of the mingled nations, their first time will be considered as mountains.
42:5 And those who first did not know Life and who later knew it exactly and who mingled with the seed of the people who have separated themselves, their first time will be considered as mountains.
42:6 And times will inherit times, and periods periods, and they will receive from one another. And then, with a view to the end, all will be compared according to the length of times and the hours of periods.
42:7 For corruption will take away those who belong to it, and Life those who belong to it.
42:8 And dust will be called, and told, "Give back that which does not belong to you and raise up all that you have kept until its own time."