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My spirit was greatly aroused, and my soul was in distress.
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I said, "O Lord, you spoke at the beginning of creation, and said on the first day, "Let heaven and earth be made,' and your word accomplished the work.
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Then the spirit was blowing, and darkness and silence embraced everything; the sound of human voices was not yet there.
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Then you commanded a ray of light to be brought out from your store-chambers, so that your works could be seen.
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"Again, on the second day, you created the spirit of the firmament, and commanded it to divide and separate the waters, so that one part might move upward and the other part remain beneath.
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"On the third day you commanded the waters to be gathered together in a seventh part of the earth; six parts you dried up and kept so that some of them might be planted and cultivated and be of service before you.
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For your word went forth, and at once the work was done.
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Immediately fruit came forth in endless abundance and of varied appeal to the taste, and flowers of inimitable color, and odors of inexpressible fragrance. These were made on the third day.
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"On the fourth day you commanded 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 you commanded them to serve humankind, about to be formed.
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"On the fifth day you commanded the seventh part, where the water had been gathered together, to bring forth living creatures, birds, and fishes; and so it was done.