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Some days he exalted and sanctified,
    and others he made ordinary days.
10 All men originate from the ground,
    for humankind itself[a] was created out of the earth.
11 Yet in the fullness of his knowledge the Lord has distinguished men
    and caused them to walk along different ways.

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Footnotes

  1. Wisdom of Ben Sira 33:10 Humankind itself: Hebrew; Greek reads: “Adam himself.”