# 2 Esdras 16:22

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

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For many of them that dwell upon earth shall perish of famine; and the other, that escape the hunger, shall the sword destroy.