The concensus is that this passage is a third century interpolation which became widespread in the fourth century. It remains in most contemporary translations but with a footnote.
This triune interpolated phrase is first included Latin manuscripts of the fifth-seventh century although it is quoted by early church fathers earlier.
This penitential prayer is sometimes treated as the final chapter of 2 Chronicles. It is usually treated as a deuterocanonical book.
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