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‘O sovereign Lord, did you not speak at the beginning when you planted[a] the earth—and that without help—and commanded the dust[b] and it gave you Adam, a lifeless body? Yet he was the creation of your hands, and you breathed into him the breath of life, and he was made alive in your presence. And you led him into the garden that your right hand had planted before the earth appeared.

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  1. 2 Esdras 3:4 Other ancient authorities read formed
  2. 2 Esdras 3:4 Syr Ethiop: Lat people or world

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