5 For you have come here apart from your will, and depart against your will, for you have only been given a short time to live. (WEB) 6 O Lord over us, grant to your servant that we may pray before you, and give us seed for our heart and cultivation for our understanding, that fruit may grow from it, by which everyone who is corrupt, who bears the likeness of a man, may live. (WEB) 7 For you alone exist, and we all one workmanship of your hands, just as you have said. (WEB) 8 Because you give life to the body that is now fashioned in the womb, and give it members, your creature is preserved in fire and water, and your workmanship endures nine months as your creation which is created in it. (WEB) 9 But that which keeps and that which is kept will both be kept by your keeping. When the womb gives up again what has grown in it, (WEB) 10 you have commanded that out of the parts of the body, that is to say, out of the breasts, be given milk, which is the fruit of the breasts, (WEB) 11 that the body that is fashioned may be nourished for a time, and afterwards you guide it in your mercy. (WEB)
2 Esdras 8:5–11
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