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Sirach 17:4

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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. fSyr: Gk him
  2. 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 9:2; Ps 8:6–8

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