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Sirach 17:2-4
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition
Sirach 17:2-4
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition
2 He gave them a fixed number of days,
but granted them authority over everything on the earth.[a]
3 He endowed them with strength like his own,[b]
and made them in his own image.
4 He put the fear of them[c] in all living beings,
and gave them dominion over beasts and birds.[d]
Footnotes
- Sirach 17:2 Lat: Gk it
- Sirach 17:3 Lat: Gk proper to them
- Sirach 17:4 Syr: Gk him
- Sirach 17:4 Other ancient authorities add as verse 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.
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition (NRSVACE)
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