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2 Esdras 4:39-41
Revised Standard Version
2 Esdras 4:39-41
Revised Standard Version
39 And 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 dwell on earth.”
40 He answered me and said, “Go and ask a woman who is with child if, when her nine months have been completed, her womb can keep the child within her any longer.”
41 And I said, “No, lord, it cannot.”
And he said to me, “In Hades the chambers of the souls are like the womb.
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