49 For just as a young child may not give birth, neither she who has grown old any more, even so have I organized the world which I created.” (WEB)
2 Esdras 5:49
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2 Esdras 5:52–54
52 Say to her, ‘Why aren’t they whom you have now brought forth like those who were before, but smaller in stature?’ (WEB) 53 She also will answer you, ‘Those who are born in the strength of youth are different from those who are born in the time of old age, when the womb… (WEB)
2 Maccabees 7:21–23
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2 Esdras 5:43–45
43 So I answered, “Couldn’t you make them all at once that have been made, and that are now, and that are yet to come, that you might show your judgment sooner?” (WEB) 44 Then he answered me, “The creature may not move faster than the creator, nor can the world hold them… (WEB) 45 … (WEB)
Isaiah 66:8–10
8 Who has heard of such as this? Who has seen such things? Can a country be born in a day or a nation be delivered in an instant? Yet as soon as Zion was in labor, she gave birth to her children. 9 Shall I bring a baby to the point of birth and not deliver it?” sa…
2 Esdras 10:13–15
13 but it is with the earth after the manner of the earth. The multitude present in it has gone as it came. (WEB) 14 Then say I to you, ‘Just as you have brought forth with sorrow, even so the earth also has given her fruit, namely, people, ever since the beginning to him… (WEB)
2 Esdras 8:8–10
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2 Esdras 4:39–41
39 Perhaps it is for our sakes that the threshing time of the righteous is kept back—because of the sins of those who dwell on the earth.” (WEB) 40 So he answered me, “Go your way to a woman with child, and ask of her when she has fulfilled her nine months, if her womb ma… (WEB)
2 Esdras 9:4–6
4 then will you understand that the Most High spoke of these things from the days that were of old, from the beginning. (WEB) 5 For just as with everything that is made in the world, the beginning is evident and the end manifest, (WEB) 6 so also are the times of the Most High: t… (WEB)
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