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The 2nd Book of Esdras, which is in the KJV Apocrypha, had 70 verses (v36-105), which clearly speak on the soul after death, removed from Chapter 7 (v106 in the original became v36). The full text can be found at:
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2Esdras7&version=RSV
Short Summary of v36-105:
v36-44 – The Day of Judgement. Nations raised from the dead. Place of torments and place of rest revealed.
v45-61 – Ezra asks why so few saved, and why so many enter into torments. God gives an analogy about precious stones and metals
v62-74 – Ezra laments for the lost. God explains the judgement
v75-87 – The fate of those who have not kept the way of the Most High.
v88-99 – The fate of those who have kept the way of the Most High
v100-105 – The soul is separated 7 days from the body before gathering into its final place of habitation. Ezra asks about intercession for the ungodly





