2 Esdras 5:47-49

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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.”