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Because thou hast set them apart for an inheritance to thyself out of all the nations of the earth, as thou spokest by the hand of thy servant Moses, when thou broughtest our fathers out of the land of Egypt, O Lord God.—Then spoke Solomon concerning the house, when he had finished building it—He manifested the sun in the heaven: the Lord said he would dwell in darkness: build thou my house, a beautiful house for thyself to dwell in anew. Behold, is not this written in the book of the song?
54
And it came to pass when Solomon had finished praying to the Lord all this prayer and supplication, that he rose up from before the altar of the Lord, having knelt upon his knees, and his hands spread out towards heaven.
55
And he stood, and blessed all the congregation of Israel with a loud voice, saying,
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Blessed the Lord this day, who has given rest to his people Israel, according to all that he said: there has not failed one word among all his good words which he spoke by the hand of his servant Moses.
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May the Lord our God be with us, as he was with our fathers; let him not desert us nor turn from us,
The Brenton translation of the Septuagint is in the public domain.