and say:

What was your mother? (A)A lioness!
    Among lions she crouched;
in the midst of young lions
    she reared her cubs.
And she brought up one of her cubs;
    (B)he became a young lion,
(C)and he learned to catch prey;
    he devoured men.
The nations heard about him;
    (D)he was caught in their pit,
(E)and they brought him with hooks
    to the land of Egypt.

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and say:

“‘What a lioness(A) was your mother
    among the lions!
She lay down among them
    and reared her cubs.(B)
She brought up one of her cubs,
    and he became a strong lion.
He learned to tear the prey
    and he became a man-eater.
The nations heard about him,
    and he was trapped in their pit.
They led him with hooks(C)
    to the land of Egypt.(D)

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