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either of two books of the Apocrypha, I and II Esdras , called III and IV Esdras , in the Douay Bible
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either of two books of the Douay Bible Old Testament, I and II Esdras corresponding to the books of Ezra and Nehemiah in the Authorized Version
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The outbreak is being exacerbated by a mistrust of health workers, as Esdras Tsongo reports from Butembo, where the epidemic began.
From The Guardian • May 15, 2019
She has been raising her great-grandson Esdras since he was born, but still Esdras was placed in a foster family because Mejia did not have documents confirming custody.
From Washington Post • May 7, 2019
Yet that’s the beginning of Esdras Ochoa’s culinary story.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 24, 2016
“He has no choices,” said Daniel Esdras, who heads the office of the International Organization for Migration in Athens, which helps immigrants go home.
From New York Times • Aug. 6, 2014
The prophet Esdras believed that six-sevenths of the earth was dry land—an idea which could not well be exploded till the great oceans had been traversed and America discovered.
From Astronomical Myths Based on Flammarions's History of the Heavens by Blake, John F.
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