3 I also, when I was born, drew in the common air, and fell upon the kindred earth, uttering, like all, for my first voice, the same cry. (WEB) 4 I was nursed with care in swaddling clothes. (WEB) 5 For no king had a different beginning, (WEB)
Wisdom of Solomon 7:3–5
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