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¹In the beginning, God created heaven and earth.

²⁰For unseen things about him have been made conspicuous, since the creation of the world, being understood by the things that were made; likewise his everlasting virtue and divinity, so much so that they have no excuse.

³By faith, we understand the world to be fashioned by the Word of God, so that the visible might be made by the invisible.

⁷And then the Lord God formed man from the clay of the earth, and he breathed into his face the breath of life, and man became a living soul.

⁷In truth, ask the mules, and they will teach you, and the birds of the sky, and they will reveal to you. ⁸Speak with the earth, and it will respond to you, and the fish of the sea will explain. ⁹Who is ignorant that the hand of the Lord has made all these things? ¹⁰In his hand is the soul of all the living and the spirit of all the flesh of mankind.

¹³For you have possessed my temperament. You have supported me from the womb of my mother. ¹⁴I will confess to you, for you have been magnified terribly. Your works are miraculous, as my soul knows exceedingly well.

¹²He made the earth by his power, he prepared the world in his wisdom, and he stretched out the heavens with his understanding.

²²The Lord possessed me in the beginning of his ways, before he made anything, from the beginning. ²³I was ordained from eternity, and out of antiquity, before the earth was formed. ²⁴The abyss did not yet exist, and I was already conceived; neither had the fountains of waters yet erupted. ²⁵The mountains, with their great mass, had not yet been established. Before the hills, I was brought forth. ²⁶Still he had not made the earth, and the rivers, and the poles of the globe of the earth. ²⁷I was already present: when he prepared the heavens; when, with a certain law and a circuit, he fortified the abyss;

²⁴How great are your works, O Lord! You have made all things in wisdom. The earth has been filled with your possessions.

²⁴the God who made the world and all that is in it, the One who is the Lord of heaven and earth, who does not live in temples made with hands. ²⁵Neither is he served by the hands of men, as if in need of anything, since it is he who gives to all things life and breath and all else. ²⁶And he has made, out of one, every family of man: to live upon the face of the entire earth, determining the appointed seasons and the limits of their habitation, ²⁷so as to seek God, if perhaps they may consider him or find him, though he is not far from each one of us. ²⁸‘For in him we live, and move, and exist.’ Just as some of your own poets have said. ‘For we are also of his family.’

¹⁶For in him was created everything in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones, or dominations, or principalities, or powers. All things were created through him and in him.

¹²I made the earth, and I created man upon it. My hand stretched out the heavens, and I have commanded all their hosts.

¹⁶For in him was created everything in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones, or dominations, or principalities, or powers. All things were created through him and in him. ¹⁷And he is before all, and in him all things continue.

³All things were made through Him, and nothing that was made was made without Him.

²⁸Do you not know, or have you not heard? The Lord is the eternal God, who has created the limits of the earth. He does not diminish, and he does not struggle. Neither is his wisdom searchable.

²⁴the God who made the world and all that is in it, the One who is the Lord of heaven and earth, who does not live in temples made with hands. ²⁵Neither is he served by the hands of men, as if in need of anything, since it is he who gives to all things life and breath and all else. ²⁶And he has made, out of one, every family of man: to live upon the face of the entire earth, determining the appointed seasons and the limits of their habitation,

²⁶And he said: “Let us make Man to our image and likeness. And let him rule over the fish of the sea, and the flying creatures of the air, and the wild beasts, and the entire earth, and every animal that moves on the earth.” ²⁷And God created man to his own image; to the image of God he created him; male and female, he created them.

¹⁹The Lord founded the earth on wisdom. He secured the heavens with prudence. ²⁰By his wisdom, the abyss erupted and the clouds increased with dew.

¹⁴I will confess to you, for you have been magnified terribly. Your works are miraculous, as my soul knows exceedingly well.

²⁴God also said, “Let the land produce living souls in their kind: cattle, and animals, and wild beasts of the earth, according to their species.” And so it became. ²⁵And God made the wild beasts of the earth according to their species, and the cattle, and every animal on the land, according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. ²⁶And he said: “Let us make Man to our image and likeness. And let him rule over the fish of the sea, and the flying creatures of the air, and the wild beasts, and the entire earth, and every animal that moves on the earth.” ²⁷And God created man to his own image; to the image of God he created him; male and female, he created them.