1 Christ said to him, “Stop, Sedrach, how long will you shed tears and groan?
2 Paradise has been opened to you, and after dying you will live.”
3 Sedrach said to him, “Once more will I speak to you, Lord, while I live, before I die; and do not ignore my supplication.”
4 The Lord said to him, “Speak, Sedrach.”
5 (And Sedrach said,) “If man lives eighty or ninety or a hundred years, and lives them in sin but in the end is converted and the man lives in repentance, for how many days of repentance do you forgive (him) his sins?”
6 God said to him, “If he returns after living one hundred or eighty years and repents for three years and bears the fruit of righteousness and death should reach him, then shall I not remember all his sins.”