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For the dumb water, without life, brought forth living things at the commandment of God, that all people might praise Thy wondrous works.
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"Then didst Thou ordain two living creatures: the one Thou called Behemoth and the other Leviathan,
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and didst separate the one from the other; for the seventh part, namely, where the water was gathered together, might not hold them both.
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Unto Behemoth Thou gavest one part which was dried up the third day, that he should dwell in the same part, wherein are a thousand hills.
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But unto Leviathan Thou gavest the seventh part, namely, the moist, and hast kept him to be devoured by whom Thou wilt, and when.
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"Upon the sixth day Thou gavest commandment unto the earth that before Thee it should bring forth beasts, cattle, and creeping things,
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and after these, Adam also, whom Thou madest lord of all Thy creatures. From him come we all, and the people also whom Thou hast chosen.
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"All this have I spoken before Thee, O Lord, because Thou madest the world for our sakes.
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As for the other people who also come from Adam, Thou hast said that they are nothing, but be like unto spittle, and hast likened the abundance of them unto a drop that falleth from a vessel.
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And now, O Lord, behold, these heathen, who have ever been reputed as nothing, have begun to be lords over us and to devour us.
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But we, Thy people, whom Thou hast called Thy first-born, Thy only begotten and Thy fervent lover, are given into their hands.