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2 Esdras 4:39-41
Common English Bible
2 Esdras 4:39-41
Common English Bible
39 Is it perhaps because of us, and because of the sins of those who live on earth, that the harvest of the just is delayed?”
40 He answered me, “Go ask a pregnant woman whether her womb can keep the baby inside her when she has completed her nine months.”
41 I said, “It can’t, Lord.”
He said to me: “The underworld[a] and the resting places of the souls are like the womb.
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- 2 Esdras 4:41 Lat inferno
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