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Sirach 17:1–4

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17The Lord created humans out of earth

and makes them return to it again.*

2He gave them a fixed number of days

but granted them authority over everything on the earth.d*

3He endowed them with strength like his owne

and made them in his own image.*

4He put the fear of themf in all living beings

and gave them dominion over beasts and birds.g*

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Footnotes

  1. dLat: Gk it
  2. eLat: Gk proper to them
  3. fSyr: Gk him
  4. gOther ancient authorities add as 17:5: They obtained the use of the five faculties of the Lord; as sixth he distributed to them the gift of mind, and as seventh, reason, the interpreter of one’s faculties.

Cross references

  1. *Gen 3:19; Wis 7:1
  2. *Gen 1:26, 28; Job 14:1, 5
  3. *Gen 1:26; Wis 2:23
  4. *Gen 9:2; Ps 8:6–8

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