38 Just as a woman with child in the ninth month, when the hour of her delivery draws near, within two or three hours great pains surround her womb, and when the child comes out from the womb, there will be no waiting for a moment, (WEB)
2 Esdras 16:38
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1 Thessalonians 5:2–4
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