2 Esdras 6:43-56

1. 43 For as soon as thy word went forth the work was made.

2. 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.

3. 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:

4. 46 And gavest them a charge to do service unto man, that was to be made.

5. 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.

6. 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.

7. 49 Then didst thou ordain two living creatures, the one thou calledst Enoch, and the other Leviathan;

8. 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.

9. 51 Unto Enoch thou gavest one part, which was dried up the third day, that he should dwell in the same part, wherein are a thousand hills:

10. 52 But unto Leviathan thou gavest the seventh part, namely, the moist; and hast kept him to be devoured of whom thou wilt, and when.

11. 53 Upon the sixth day thou gavest commandment unto the earth, that before thee it should bring forth beasts, cattle, and creeping things:

12. 54 And after these, Adam also, whom thou madest lord of all thy creatures: of him come we all, and the people also whom thou hast chosen.

13. 55 All this have I spoken before thee, O Lord, because thou madest the world for our sakes

14. 56 As for the other people, which also come of Adam, thou hast said that they are nothing, but be like unto spittle: and hast likened the abundance of them unto a drop that falleth from a vessel.

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