2 Esdras 5:47

47 "That would be impossible," I answered. "She can't have them all at once."

2 Esdras 5:47 In-Context

45 "Why, then," I asked, "did you just now tell me that one day you would bring back to life at the same time every creature that ever lived? If the world can hold them all then, it can hold them now."

46 He answered, "That would be like asking a woman who has given birth to ten children why she didn't have them all at once, instead of one at a time."

47 "That would be impossible," I answered. "She can't have them all at once."

48 "In the same way," he continued, "I have made the world like a womb so that it produces human beings at regular intervals.

49 The rule that neither a young child nor an old woman can give birth to a baby also applies to the world that I have created."