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Sirach 17:3-4
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3 He endowed them with strength like his own[a]
    and made them in his own image.(A)
4 He put the fear of them[b] in all living beings
    and gave them dominion over beasts and birds.[c](B)

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Footnotes

  1. 17.3 Lat: Gk proper to them
  2. 17.4 Syr: Gk him
  3. 17.4 Other ancient authorities add as 17.5: 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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