2 Esdras 6:49

2 Esdras 6:49 Context

⁴⁶And gavest them a charge to do service unto man, that was to be made. ⁴⁷Upon the fifth day thou saidst unto the seventh part, where the waters were gathered that it should bring forth living creatures, fowls and fishes: and so it came to pass. ⁴⁸For the dumb water and without life brought forth living things at the commandment of God, that all people might praise thy wondrous works. ⁴⁹Then didst thou ordain two living creatures, the one thou calledst Enoch, and the other Leviathan; ⁵⁰And didst separate the one from the other: for the seventh part, namely, where the water was gathered together, might not hold them both. ⁵¹Unto Enoch thou gavest one part, which was dried up the third day, that he should dwell in the same part, wherein are a thousand hills: ⁵²But unto Leviathan thou gavest the seventh part, namely, the moist; and hast kept him to be devoured of whom thou wilt, and when.

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