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Solomon Like Other Mortals

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 moulded into flesh,
within the period of ten months, compacted with blood,
from the seed of a man and the pleasure of marriage.

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