2 ESDRAS: The Hidden Book of Prophecy With 1st Esdras - Book - Page 102
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Cf. Gn. 1:14.
Cf. Gn. 1:15;
Dt. 4:19.
Cf. Gn. 1:20.
Cf. Job 40:15
behemoth.
Job 41:1
leviathan
W O R K S
of these some being planted
of Elohim and tilled, might
serve you.
43 For as soon as your word
went forth, the work was
made.
44 For immediately there
was great and innumerable
fruit, and many and diverse
pleasures for the taste, and
flowers of unchangable color,
and odors of wonderful smell:
and this was done the third
day.
45 Upon the fourth day you
commanded that the Sun
should shine, and the Moon
give her light, and the stars
should be in order,
46 And gave them a charge to
do service unto man, that was
to be made.
47 Upon the fifth day, you said
unto the seventh part, where
the waters were gathered, that
it should bring forth living
creatures, fouls and fishes: and
so it came to pass.
48 For the dumb water,
and without life, brought
forth living things at the
commandment of Elohim,
that all people might praise
your wondrous works.
49 Then did you ordain two
living creatures, the one you
called Enoch, and the other
Leviathan,
50 And did separate the one
O F
C R E A T I O N
from the other: for the seventh
part (namely where the water
was gathered together) might
not hold them both.
51 Unto Enoch you gave one
part which was dried up the
third day, that he should dwell
in the same part, wherein are
a thousand hills.
52 But unto Leviathan you
gave the seventh part, namely
the moist, and has kept him
to be devoured of whom you
will, and when.
53 Upon the sixth day you
gave commandment unto the
earth, that before you it should
bring forth beasts, cattle, and
creeping things:
Why Do Yahuah’s People
Suffer?
54 And after these, Adam also
whom you made lord of all
your creatures, of him come
we all, and the people also
whom you have chosen.
55 All this have I spoken before
you, O Yahuah, because you
made the world for our sakes.
56 As for the other people
which also come of Adam,
you have said that they are
nothing, but be like unto
spittle, and have likened the
abundance of them unto a
drop that falls from a vessel.
57 And now, O Yahuah,
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Cf. Ps. 74:14;
Is. 27:1.
Cf. Gn. 1:25.
