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And the archangel Jeremiel answered and said, "When the number of those like yourselves is completed; for he has weighed the age in the balance,
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and measured the times by measure, and numbered the times by number; and he will not move or arouse them until that measure is fulfilled.' "
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Then I answered and said, "But, O sovereign Lord, all of us also are full of ungodliness.
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It is perhaps on account of us that the time of threshing is delayed for the righteous—on account of the sins of those who inhabit the earth."
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He answered me and said, "Go and ask a pregnant woman whether, when her nine months have been completed, her womb can keep the fetus within her any longer."
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