2 Esdras 5:47

47 I said, "Of course it cannot, but only each in its own time."

2 Esdras 5:47 In-Context

45 And I said, "How hast thou said to thy servant that thou wilt certainly give life at one time to thy creation? If therefore all creatures will live at one time and the creation will sustain them, it might even now be able to support all of them present at one time."

46 He said to me, "Ask a woman's womb, and say to it, `If you bear ten children, why one after another?' Request it therefore to produce ten at one time."

47 I said, "Of course it cannot, but only each in its own time."

48 He said to me, "Even so have I given the womb of the earth to those who from time to time are sown in it.

49 For as an infant does not bring forth, and a woman who has become old does not bring forth any longer, so have I organized the world which I created."