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2 Esdras 4:15
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2 Baruch 36:3–5
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1 Maccabees 5:56–58
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Job 38:10–12
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Book of Enoch 89:24–26
24 And that sea was divided, and the water stood on this side and on that before their face, and their Lord led them and placed Himself between them and the wolves. (ENO) 25 And as those wolves did not yet see the sheep, they proceeded into the midst of that sea, and the… (ENO) 26 … (ENO)
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