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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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Didn't the souls of the just in their resting places ask about these things, saying, ‘How long are we to remain here, and when will the harvest of our reward come?'
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Then Jeremiel the angel answered them, ‘When the number of those like you is complete, for God has weighed the world in a balance
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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?"