2 Esdras 6:47-52

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⁴⁷ “On the fifth day you commanded the seventh part, where the water had been gathered together, to bring forth living creatures, birds, and fishes, and so it was done.^{(A) 48} The dumb and lifeless water produced living creatures, as it was commanded, so that therefore the nations might declare your wondrous works.

⁴⁹ “Then you kept in existence two living creatures that you created;^[a] the one you called Behemoth^[b] and the name of the other Leviathan.^{(B) 50} And you separated one from the other, for the seventh part where the water had been gathered together could not hold them both.^{(C) 51} And you gave Behemoth^[c] one of the parts that had been dried up on the third day, to live in it, where there are a thousand mountains,^{(D) 52} but to Leviathan you gave the seventh part, the watery part, and you have kept them to be eaten by whom you wish and when you wish.^(E)