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Wisdom of Solomon 7:1-6
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
Wisdom of Solomon 7:1-6
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
The King Is Like Other Mortals
7 I also am mortal like everyone else,
a descendant of the first-formed child of earth,
and in the womb of a mother I was molded into flesh,(A)
2 within the period of ten months, compacted with blood,
from the seed of a man and the pleasure of marriage.
3 And when I was born, I began to breathe the common air
and fell upon the kindred earth;
my first sound was a cry, as is true of all.(B)
4 I was nursed with care in swaddling cloths.(C)
5 For no king has had a different beginning of existence;
6 there is for all one entrance into life and one way out.(D)
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