Sirach 17:3-4

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³He endowed them with strength like his own,^[a]
and made them in his own image.
⁴He put the fear of them^[b] in all living beings,
and gave them dominion over beasts and birds.^[c]

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Footnotes

Sirach 17:3 Lat: Gk proper to them
Sirach 17:4 Syr: Gk him
Sirach 17:4 Other ancient authorities add as verse 5, They obtained the use of the five faculties of the Lord; as sixth he distributed to them the gift of mind, and as seventh, reason, the interpreter of one’s faculties.

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