6:45 Upon the fourth day thou commandedst that the sun should shine, and the moon give her light, and the stars should be in order: 6:46 And gavest them a charge to do service unto man, that was to be made. 6:47 Upon the fifth day thou saidst unto the seventh part, where the waters were gathered that it should bring forth living creatures, fowls and fishes: and so it came to pass. 6:48 For the dumb water and without life brought forth living things at the commandment of God, that all people might praise thy wondrous works. 6:49 Then didst thou ordain two living creatures, the one thou calledst Enoch, and the other Leviathan; 6:50 And didst separate the one from the other: for the seventh part, namely, where the water was gathered together, might not hold them both. 6:51 Unto Enoch thou gavest one part, which was dried up the third day, that he should dwell in the same part, wherein are a thousand hills: 6:52 But unto Leviathan thou gavest the seventh part, namely, the moist; and hast kept him to be devoured of whom thou wilt, and when. 6:53 Upon the sixth day thou gavest commandment unto the earth, that before thee it should bring forth beasts, cattle, and creeping things: 6:54 And after these, Adam also, whom thou madest lord of all thy creatures: of him come we all, and the people also whom thou hast chosen. 6:55 All this have I spoken before thee, O Lord, because thou madest the world for our sakes 6:56 As for the other people, which also come of Adam, thou hast said that they are nothing, but be like unto spittle: and hast likened the abundance of them unto a drop that falleth from a vessel. 6:57 And now, O Lord, behold, these heathen, which have ever been reputed as nothing, have begun to be lords over us, and to devour us. 6:58 But we thy people, whom thou hast called thy firstborn, thy only begotten, and thy fervent lover, are given into their hands. 6:59 If the world now be made for our sakes, why do we not possess an inheritance with the world? how long shall this endure? 7:1 And when I had made an end of speaking these words, there was sent unto me the angel which had been sent unto me the nights afore: 7:2 And he said unto me, Up, Esdras, and hear the words that I am come to tell thee. 7:3 And I said, Speak on, my God. Then said he unto me, The sea is set in a wide place, that it might be deep and great. 7:4 But put the case the entrance were narrow, and like a river; 7:5 Who then could go into the sea to look upon it, and to rule it? if he went not through the narrow, how could he come into the broad? 7:6 There is also another thing; A city is builded, and set upon a broad field, and is full of all good things: 7:7 The entrance thereof is narrow, and is set in a dangerous place to fall, like as if there were a fire on the right hand, and on the left a deep water: 7:8 And one only path between them both, even between the fire and the water, so small that there could but one man go there at once.