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2 Esdras 3:5-7
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
2 Esdras 3:5-7
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
5 and it gave you Adam, a lifeless body? Yet he was the creation of your hands, and you breathed into him the breath of life, and he was made alive in your presence.(A) 6 And you led him into the garden that your right hand had planted before the earth appeared.(B) 7 And you laid upon him one commandment of yours, but he transgressed it, and immediately you appointed death for him and for his descendants. From him there sprang nations and tribes, peoples and clans without number.(C)
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