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2 Esdras 6:51
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You let Behemoth live on a part of the land that you dried up on the third day of creation; it is a land of a thousand mountains.
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Then you singled out two of the living creatures; you named one of them Behemoth and the other Leviathan.
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You separated them from each other because the sea wasn't big enough to hold them both.
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You let Behemoth live on a part of the land that you dried up on the third day of creation; it is a land of a thousand mountains.
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You let Leviathan live in the sea. You kept them both alive, so that your chosen people may feast on them at the time you choose.
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On the sixth day you commanded the earth to produce the animals, domestic and wild, large and small.
Scripture taken from the Good News Translation - Second Edition, Copyright 1992 by American Bible Society. Used by Permission.