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and said: ‘Come, let's go and make war on the sea so that it may recede before us, and let's make for ourselves more forests.'
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And likewise, the waves of the sea also formed a plan and said, ‘Come, let's go up and subdue the forest on the plain so that there too we may complete another region for ourselves.'
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But the plan of the forest came to naught, for fire came and consumed it.
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Likewise also the plan of the waves of the sea, for the sand stood firm and prevented it.
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If then you were judge of these, which would you begin to justify and which to condemn?"