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On the fifth day you commanded the part of the earth covered by water to produce birds and fish; and it was done.
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At your command, the still and lifeless water brought forth living creatures, so that the nations might proclaim your wonderful works.
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Then you singled out two of the living creatures; you named one of them Behemoth and the other Leviathan.
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You separated them from each other because the sea wasn't big enough to hold them both.
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You let Behemoth live on a part of the land that you dried up on the third day of creation; it is a land of a thousand mountains.
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You let Leviathan live in the sea. You kept them both alive, so that your chosen people may feast on them at the time you choose.
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On the sixth day you commanded the earth to produce the animals, domestic and wild, large and small.
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More important than all of these, you created Adam and put him in charge of everything that you had made. And all of us, the people you have chosen, are descended from him.
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"O Lord, I have told you all this because you said that you created this first world for the sake of your people.
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You said that, in spite of their great numbers, all the other nations which descended from Adam are nothing, worth no more than a drop of water, no more than spit.
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But now, Lord, those nations that are considered as nothing are ruling over us and destroying us.