# 2 Esdras 12:24

**Apocrypha.** Not part of the 66-book Protestant canon. Catholic and Orthodox churches accept these books as deuterocanonical.

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- Book: [2 Esdras](https://apologetics.wiki/apocrypha/2-esdras)
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And of those that dwell therein, with much oppression, above all those that were before them: therefore are they called the heads of the eagle.