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Do you know how many months they must carry their babies?
    Do you know when it is the right time for them to be born?
These animals lie down, they feel their birth pains,
    and their babies are born.
Their babies grow strong out in the wild.
    Then they leave their mothers and never come back.

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Do you count the months till they bear?
    Do you know the time they give birth?(A)
They crouch down and bring forth their young;
    their labor pains are ended.
Their young thrive and grow strong in the wilds;
    they leave and do not return.

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Can you number the months that they fulfill,
    and do you know the time when they give birth,
when they (A)crouch, bring forth their offspring,
    and are delivered of their young?
Their young ones become strong; they grow up in the open;
    they go out and (B)do not return to them.

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