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and they all together, by the one form of death, had corpses too many to count. For the living were not sufficient even to bury them, since in one instant their most valued children had been destroyed.
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For though they had disbelieved everything because of their magic arts, yet, when their first-born were destroyed, they acknowledged thy people to be God's son.
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For while gentle silence enveloped all things, and night in its swift course was now half gone,
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thy all-powerful word leaped from heaven, from the royal throne, into the midst of the land that was doomed, a stern warrior
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carrying the sharp sword of thy authentic command, and stood and filled all things with death, and touched heaven while standing on the earth.
Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyright 1952 [2nd edition, 1971] by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.