Friday, February 18, 2022

1 Enoch 10 and 2 Baruch 73: The Faithful Righteous will Continue to Have Children

In some pseudepigraphic texts, we read that women will continue to give birth (albeit without labour pains [cf. Gen 3:16]) and the righteous will continue to have children:

 

And then all the righteous ones will escape; and become the living ones until they multiply and become tens of hundreds; and all the days of their youth and the years of their retirement they will complete in peace. (1 Enoch 10:17)

 

And women will no longer have pain when they bear, nor will they be tormented when they yield the fruits of their womb. (2 Baruch 73:7)