Tafsir Ibn Abbas: Ar-Ra'd, Ayah 8
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God knows what every female bears of male or female one or more and otherwise and what the wombs reduce of the time of gestation and what they increase of it. And everything with Him is according to a precise measure a precise amount and limit which it does not exceed;
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Ibn Abbas Commentary
(Allah knoweth that which every female beareth) whether it is a male or a female (and that which the wombs absorb) and the female whose pregnancy is less than nine months (and that which they grow) and the female whose pregnancy is more than nine months. (And everything) the increase, decrease, the delivery of the child and its stay in its mother's womb (with Him is measured).