was to
be made.

2 Esdr 6:47
Upon the fifth day thou saidst unto the seventh part, where
the waters were gathered that it should bring forth living
creatures, fowls and fishes: and so it came to pass.

2 Esdr 6:48
For the dumb water and without life brought forth living
things at the commandment of God, that all people might praise
thy wondrous works.

2 Esdr 6:49
Then didst thou ordain two living creatures, the one thou
calledst Enoch, and the other Leviathan;

2 Esdr 6:50
And didst separate the one from the other: for the seventh
part, namely, where the water was gathered together, might not
hold them both.

2 Esdr 6:51
Unto Enoch thou gavest one part, which was dried up the third
day, that he should dwell in the same part, wherein are a
thousand hills:

2 Esdr 6:52
But unto Leviathan thou gavest the seventh part, namely, the
moist; and hast kept him to be devoured of whom thou wilt, and
when.

2 Esdr 6:53
Upon the sixth day thou gavest commandment unto the earth,
that before thee it should bring forth beasts, cattle, and
creeping things:

2 Esdr 6:54
And after these, Adam also, whom thou madest lord of all thy
creatures: of him come we all, and the people also whom thou
hast chosen.

2 Esdr 6:55
All this have I spoken before thee, O Lord, because thou
madest the world for our sakes

2 Esdr 6:56
As for the other people, which also come of Adam, thou hast
said that they are nothing, but be like unto spittle: and hast
likened the abundance of them unto a drop that falleth from a
vessel.

2 Esdr 6:57
And now, O Lord, behold, these heathen, which have ever been
reputed as nothing, have begun to be lords over us, and to
devour us.

2 Esdr 6:58
But we thy people, whom thou hast called thy firstborn, thy
only begotten, and thy fervent lover, are given into their
hands.

2 Esdr 6:59
If the world now be made for our sakes, why do we not possess
an inheritance with the world? how long shall this endure?

2 Esdr 7:1
And when I had made an end of speaking these words, there was
sent unto me the angel which had been sent unto me the nights
afore:

2 Esdr 7:2
And he said unto me, Up, Esdras, and hear the words that I am
come to tell thee.

2 Esdr 7:3
And I said, Speak on, my God. Then said he unto me, The sea
is set in a wide place, that it might be deep and great.

2 Esdr 7:4
But put the case the entrance were narrow, and like a river;

2 Esdr 7:5
Who then could go into the sea to loo