Sirach 17:1-2

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition

17 The Lord created human beings 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.^[a]

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Sirach 17:2 Lat: Gk it

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