Wisdom 18:12-14

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

¹² So all alike had innumerable dead, with one kind of death. Neither were the living sufficient to bury them; for in one moment the noblest offspring of them was destroyed.

¹³ For whereas they would not believe any thing before by reason of the enchantments, then first upon the destruction of the firstborn, they acknowledged the people to be of God.

¹⁴ For while all things were in quiet silence, and the night was in the midst of her course,