Esdras

Ez´druhs

The First Book of, an alternative version of (2Chr 35:1-36:23), all of Ezra, and (Neh 7:38-8:12). It is included in the LXX, the Greek version of the OT that was used by the early Christian church. Protestants place it in the Apocrypha, while Roman Catholics regard it as deuterocanonical. It appears in the Vulgate as 3 Esdras.