2 Esdras 6:39-50
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39 And then was the spirit, and darkness and silence were on every side; the sound of man's voice was not yet formed.
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40 Then commandedst thou a fair light to come forth of thy treasures, that thy work might appear.
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41 Upon the second day thou madest the spirit of the firmament, and commandedst it to part asunder, and to make a division betwixt the waters, that the one part might go up, and the other remain beneath.
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42 Upon the third day thou didst command that the waters should be gathered in the seventh part of the earth: six pats hast thou dried up, and kept them, to the intent that of these some being planted of God and tilled might serve thee.
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43 For as soon as thy word went forth the work was made.
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44 For immediately there was great and innumerable fruit, and many and divers pleasures for the taste, and flowers of unchangeable colour, and odours of wonderful smell: and this was done the third day.
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45 Upon the fourth day thou commandedst that the sun should shine, and the moon give her light, and the stars should be in order:
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46 And gavest them a charge to do service unto man, that was to be made.
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47 Upon the fifth day thou saidst unto the seventh part, where the waters were gathered that it should bring forth living creatures, fowls and fishes: and so it came to pass.
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48 For the dumb water and without life brought forth living things at the commandment of God, that all people might praise thy wondrous works.
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49 Then didst thou ordain two living creatures, the one thou calledst Enoch, and the other Leviathan;
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50 And didst separate the one from the other: for the seventh part, namely, where the water was gathered together, might not hold them both.