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"On the fifth day thou didst command the seventh part, where the water had been gathered together, to bring forth living creatures, birds, and fishes; and so it was done.
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"On the fourth day thou didst command the brightness of the sun, the light of the moon, and the arrangement of the stars to come into being;
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and thou didst command them to serve man, who was about to be formed.
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"On the fifth day thou didst command the seventh part, where the water had been gathered together, to bring forth living creatures, birds, and fishes; and so it was done.
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The dumb and lifeless water produced living creatures, as it was commanded, that therefore the nations might declare thy wondrous works.
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"Then thou didst keep in existence two living creatures; the name of one thou didst call Behemoth and the name of the other Leviathan.
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