# 2 Esdras 8:8

**Apocrypha.** Not part of the 66-book Protestant canon. Catholic and Orthodox churches accept these books as deuterocanonical.

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- Edition: kjv-apocrypha
- Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/apocrypha/2-esdras/8/8
- Book: [2 Esdras](https://apologetics.wiki/apocrypha/2-esdras)
- Chapter: [2 Esdras 8](https://apologetics.wiki/apocrypha/2-esdras/8)
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For when the body is fashioned now in the mother’s womb, and thou givest it members, thy creature is preserved in fire and water, and nine months doth thy workmanship endure thy creature which is created in her.