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I also am mortal, like all men, a descendant of the first-formed child of earth; and in the womb of a mother I was molded into flesh,
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within the period of ten months, compacted with blood, from the seed of a man and the pleasure of marriage.
3
And when I was born, I began to breathe the common air, and fell upon the kindred earth, and my first sound was a cry, like that of all.
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I was nursed with care in swaddling cloths.
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For no king has had a different beginning of existence;