1 Esdras 4:13-15

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

The Speech about Women

¹³ Then the third, who had spoken of women and truth (and this was Zerubbabel), began to speak: ¹⁴ ‘Gentlemen, is not the king great, and are not men many, and is not wine strong? Who is it, then, that rules them, or has the mastery over them? Is it not women? ¹⁵ Women gave birth to the king and to every people that rules over sea and land.