51
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.
52
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.
53
On the sixth day you commanded the earth to produce the animals, domestic and wild, large and small.
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More important than all of these, you created Adam and put him in charge of everything that you had made. And all of us, the people you have chosen, are descended from him.
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"O Lord, I have told you all this because you said that you created this first world for the sake of your people.
Scripture taken from the Good News Translation - Second Edition, Copyright 1992 by American Bible Society. Used by Permission.