2 Esdras 6:44-59
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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.
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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:
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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.
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53 Upon the sixth day thou gavest commandment unto the earth, that before thee it should bring forth beasts, cattle, and creeping things:
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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.
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55 All this have I spoken before thee, O Lord, because thou madest the world for our sakes
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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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57 And now, O Lord, behold, these heathen, which have ever been reputed as nothing, have begun to be lords over us, and to devour us.
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58 But we thy people, whom thou hast called thy firstborn, thy only begotten, and thy fervent lover, are given into their hands.
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59 If the world now be made for our sakes, why do we not possess an inheritance with the world? how long shall this endure?