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Sirach 17
Sirach 17:1-6
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Sirach 17:1-6
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The Lord created a human being out of earth, and he returned that human being into it again.
2
God gave human beings a set number of days and a fixed time, and he gave them authority over the things that are upon the earth.
3
God endowed them with strength like his, and he made them according to his image.
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God made all living beings afraid of them, so that they might exercise dominion over the animals and birds.
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God gave them the capacity to plan, a tongue and eyes, ears and a mind for thinking.
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[a].
LXXb adds 17:5
They received the use of the Lord’s five faculties, but he apportioned to them the gift of mind as a sixth, and the seventh, reason, the interpreter of his faculties.
[b].
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