Therefore I have shown you this, for there is a reward laid up with the Most High: Here it is clear that the angel Uriel is the speaker (see the comments on verse 52). We do not recommend Good News Bible‘s model here. A better model is “That’s why God Most High has shown you these things and will one day reward you” (similarly Contemporary English Version).

And after three more days I will tell you other things, and explain weighty and wondrous matters to you: Stone (pages 373-374) computes that the three more days make a total of forty days of fasting as follows (compare 2 Esd 14.23):

• 6.35 — 21 days

• 9.23 — 7 days

• 10.58; 11.1 — 2 days

• 13.1 — 7 days

• 13.56 — 3 days

We suggest the following model for this verse:

• That is why I have shown you all these things, and why God Most High has a reward waiting for you. I have other things to tell you, and three days from now I will [return and] explain some things to you that are profound [or, very deep] and marvelous.”

Quoted with permission from Bullard, Roger A. and Hatton, Howard A. A Handbook on 1-2 Esdras. (UBS Helps for Translators). Miami: UBS, 2019. For this and other handbooks for translators see here.