2 Esdras 6:52-54

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⁵² but to Leviathan you gave the seventh part, the watery part, and you have kept them to be eaten by whom you wish and when you wish.^(A)

⁵³ “On the sixth day you commanded the earth to bring forth before you cattle, wild animals, and creeping things,^{(B) 54} and over these you placed Adam, as ruler over all the works that you had made, and from him we have all come, the people whom you have chosen.^(C)