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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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For as soon as thy word went forth the work was made.
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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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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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And gavest them a charge to do service unto man, that was to be made.
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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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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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Then didst thou ordain two living creatures, the one thou calledst Enoch, and the other
Leviathan;
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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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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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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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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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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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All this have I spoken before thee, O Lord, because thou madest the world for our sakes
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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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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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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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If the world now be made for our sakes, why do we not possess an inheritance with the world?
how long shall this endure?
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