2 Esdras 5:49 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

For like as a young child may not bring forth, neither she that is grown old bring forth any more, even so have I disposed the world which I created.

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Common English Bible

As an infant doesn’t give birth and a woman who has become old doesn’t give birth any longer, so I have set in order the world I created.”

Good News Translation (US Version)

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.”

World English Bible - American English Edition - without Strong's Numbers

For just as a young child may not give birth, neither she who has grown old any more, even so have I organized the world which I created.”

Good News Bible (Anglicised)

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.”

World English Bible British Edition

For just as a young child may not give birth, neither she who has grown old any more, even so have I organised the world which I created.”

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Interconfessional

For as an infant does not bring forth, and a woman who has become old does not bring forth any longer, so I have made the same rule for the world that I created.”

2 Esdras 5:49 Cross References