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For 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 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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And thou didst separate one from the other, for the seventh part where the water had been gathered together could not hold them both.
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And thou didst give Behemoth one of the parts which had been dried up on the third day, to live in it, where there are a thousand mountains;
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but to Leviathan thou didst give the seventh part, the watery part; and thou hast kept them to be eaten by whom thou wilt, and when thou wilt.
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"On the sixth day thou didst command the earth to bring forth before thee cattle, beasts, and creeping things;
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and over these thou didst place Adam, as ruler over all the works which thou hadst made; and from him we have all come, the people whom thou hast chosen.