Wisdom 18:3-5
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition
3 Therefore you provided a flaming pillar of fire
as a guide for your people’s[a] unknown journey,
and a harmless sun for their glorious wandering.
4 For their enemies[b] deserved to be deprived of light and imprisoned in darkness,
those who had kept your children imprisoned,
through whom the imperishable light of the law was to be given to the world.
The Death of the Egyptian Firstborn
5 When they had resolved to kill the infants of your holy ones,
and one child had been abandoned and rescued,
you in punishment took away a multitude of their children;
and you destroyed them all together by a mighty flood.
Footnotes
- Wisdom 18:3 Gk their
- Wisdom 18:4 Gk those persons
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