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    solidified in blood within a period of ten months[a]
    from the seed of a man and the pleasure that accompanies marriage.
And I too, when I was born, began to breathe the common air
    and fell upon an earth equal for everyone;
    the first sound I uttered was a cry, as is true of all.
I was nurtured in swaddling clothes
    and surrounded with care.

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Footnotes

  1. Wisdom 7:2 Ten months: this refers to “lunar” months, the common method of calculation among the ancients.