2 Esdras 6:52-54

Revised Standard Version

⁵² but to Levi′athan thou didst give the seventh part, the watery part; and thou hast kept them to be eaten by whom thou wilt, and when thou wilt.

⁵³ “On the sixth day thou didst command the earth to bring forth before thee cattle, beasts, and creeping things; ⁵⁴ and over these thou didst place Adam, as ruler over all the works which thou hadst made; and from him we have all come, the people whom thou hast chosen.