2 Maccabees 7:28

Revised Standard Version

²⁸I beseech you, my child, to look at the heaven and the earth and see everything that is in them, and recognize that God did not make them out of things that existed.^[a] Thus also mankind comes into being.

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2 Maccabees 7:28 Or God made them out of things that did not exist

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