2 Esdras 3:3-5

Common English Bible

³ I was deeply disturbed, and I began to speak reverently to the Most High: ⁴ “Supreme Lord, didn’t you speak in the beginning, when you fashioned the earth, and did this alone? Didn’t you command the earth,^{[a] 5} and it gave you^[b] Adam, a lifeless body? But it was the work of your hands, and so you breathed into him the breath of life, and he came to life in your presence.