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In its branches all the birds[a] of the heaven[b] made their nest,
    and under its branches all the animals[c] of the field gave birth,
    and in its shadow all the many nations lived.
And it was beautiful in its greatness,
    in the length of its branches,
    for its root was toward much water.
Cedars in the garden of God
    could not be equal to it;
fir trees[d] could not resemble its branches,
    and plane trees were not even like its branches;
any tree even in the garden of God
    could not resemble it in its beauty.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 31:6 Hebrew “bird”
  2. Ezekiel 31:6 Or “sky”
  3. Ezekiel 31:6 Hebrew “animal”
  4. Ezekiel 31:8 Or possibly, juniper