9 But that which keeps and that which is kept will both be kept by your keeping. When the womb gives up again what has grown in it, (WEB)
2 Esdras 8:9
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2 Esdras 5:52–54
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2 Baruch 21:17–18
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Exodus 23:25–27
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2 Esdras 10:11–13
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