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

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39 Do you know the time when the antelope on the cliffs gives birth?
Do you keep watch over the doe as she is in labor?
Do you count how many months they carry their young?
Do you know when it is time for them to give birth?
They crouch down.
They give birth to their fawns.
Their labor pains are over.
Their young are lively and live in the open countryside.
They go out, and they do not return to them.

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