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and measured the times by measure and numbered the times by number, and he won't move or arouse himself until the prescribed measure is fulfilled.'"
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I answered: "Supreme Lord, we all are also full of impiety.
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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?"
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He answered me, "Go ask a pregnant woman whether her womb can keep the baby inside her when she has completed her nine months."
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I said, "It can't, Lord." He said to me: "The underworld and the resting places of the souls are like the womb.