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2 Esdras 4:39-41
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised
2 Esdras 4:39-41
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised
39 It is perhaps on account of us that the time of threshing is delayed for the righteous—on account of the sins of those who inhabit the earth.’
40 He answered me and said, ‘Go and ask a pregnant woman whether, when her nine months have been completed, her womb can keep the foetus within her any longer.’
41 And I said, ‘No, lord, it cannot.’
He said to me, ‘In Hades the chambers of the souls are like the womb.
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