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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;[a] one you called Behemoth[b] and the name of the other was Leviathan. 50 And you separated one from the other, for the seventh part where the water had been gathered together could not hold them both.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Esdras 6:49 Syr Ethiop: Lat two souls
  2. 2 Esdras 6:49 Other Lat authorities read Enoch

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