And after seven days the world, which is not yet awake, shall be roused: The world, which is not yet awake is the world that is to come into being after this present one. So we may translate this whole clause as “After seven days a new world will come into being.”

And that which is corruptible shall perish: It is not clear whether that which is corruptible refers to “this corrupt age” (Good News Bible) or to corruption itself, that is, death. We rather prefer the latter sense, so this whole clause may be rendered “and it will be a world in which death does not exist.”

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.