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¹⁴You have broken the heads of the serpent. You have given him as food for the people of the Ethiopians.

²¹For it would have been better for them not to have known the way of justice than, after acknowledging it, to turn away from that holy commandment which was handed on to them.

⁴Now giants were upon the earth in those days. For after the sons of God went in to the daughters of men, and they conceived, these became the powerful ones of ancient times, men of renown.

⁷All rivers enter into the sea, and the sea does not overflow. To the place from which the rivers go out, they return, so that they may flow again.

²⁷And God created man to his own image; to the image of God he created him; male and female, he created them.

²²He is the One who sits upon the globe of the earth, and its inhabitants are like locusts. He extends the heavens as if they were nothing, and he spreads them out like a tent, in which to dwell.

²¹You have conducted your people like sheep, by the hand of Moses and Aaron.

⁸He raises up the indigent from the dust, and he lifts up the poor from filth, so that they may sit with princes, and take hold of a throne of glory. For the hinges of the earth belong to the Lord, and he has placed the globe upon them.

⁹the birds of the air, and the fish of the sea, which pass through the paths of the sea.

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.”

³²And they said to one another, “Was not our heart burning within us, while he was speaking on the way, and when he opened the Scriptures to us?”

¹⁹the land of the Kenites and the Kenizzites, the Kadmonites ²⁰and the Hittites, and the Perizzites, likewise the Rephaim, ²¹and the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Girgashites, and the Jebusites.”

¹In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and God was the Word.

²¹The Lord preserves all of their bones, not one of them shall be broken.

¹⁵so that whoever believes in him may not perish, but may have eternal life.

¹⁵The mountains bring forth grass for him; all the beasts of the field will play there.

¹⁴And the Lord God said to the serpent: “Because you have done this, you are cursed among all living things, even the wild beasts of the earth. Upon your breast shall you travel, and the ground shall you eat, all the days of your life.

⁹And he will be given a place with the impious for his burial, and with the rich for his death, though he has done no iniquity, nor was deceit in his mouth.

²⁰Your way is through the sea, and your paths are through many waters. And your traces will not be known.

¹⁵In previous generations, he permitted all nations to walk in their own ways.

²But the earth was empty and unoccupied, and darknesses were over the face of the abyss; and so the Spirit of God was brought over the waters.

⁴The earth has been dissolved, with all who dwell in it. I have confirmed its pillars.

⁵You founded the earth upon its stable base. It will not be bent from age to age.

¹In that day, the Lord will visit, with his harsh and great and strong sword, against Leviathan, the barred serpent, and against Leviathan, the twisted serpent, and he will slay the whale that is in the sea.