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2 Esdras 4:40
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His answer was, "Can a pregnant woman keep her child from being born after her nine months are up?"
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"But, sir," I replied, "all of us here on earth are such wicked sinners.
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Is it possible that because of our sin the righteous dead are having to wait for their reward?"
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His answer was, "Can a pregnant woman keep her child from being born after her nine months are up?"
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"No, sir, she cannot," I answered. And he continued, "In the world of the dead, the place where God has stored the souls is like a womb.
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It is as eager to return the souls entrusted to it from the beginning of the world as a woman is to end her labor pains.
Scripture taken from the Good News Translation - Second Edition, Copyright 1992 by American Bible Society. Used by Permission.