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2 Esdras 5:49-51
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised
2 Esdras 5:49-51
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised
49 For as an infant does not bring forth, and a woman who has become old does not bring forth any longer, so I have made the same rule for the world that I created.’
When and How Will the End Come?
50 Then I inquired and said, ‘Since you have now given me the opportunity, let me speak before you. Is our mother, of whom you have told me, still young? Or is she now approaching old age?’
51 He replied to me, ‘Ask a woman who bears children, and she will tell you.
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