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Chapter 3  
     
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 (the child)  
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 O You, who make semen grow in women, 
  
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 who creates people from sperm, 
  
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 who feeds the son in his mother's womb,
  
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 who soothes him to still his tears.
  
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 You nurse in the womb !  
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 Giver of breath to nourish all creatures.
  
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 When the child emerges from the womb to breathe on the day of his birth,
  
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 You open wide his mouth to supply his needs. 
  
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 (the chicken)  
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 The chick in the egg, chirping in the shell,
  
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 You give it breath within to sustain its life.
  
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 When it is complete, it breaks out from the egg.
  
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 It emerges from the egg, to say it is complete.
  
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 Walking on its legs when emerging.
  
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 God as doer : un-saying, solitary, omnipotent
  
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 How many are your deeds, though hidden from sight.  
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 O sole God without equal !  
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 You made the Earth as You desired, You alone.
  
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 With people, cattle, and all creatures.
  
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 With everything upon Earth that walks on legs,
  
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 and all that is on high and flies with its wings.
  
23.
 the Two Niles : God as national, international and  transnational governor  
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 The foreign lands of Syria and Nubia, and the land of Egypt,
  
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 You set everybody in his place and supply their needs.
  
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 They all have their food and their lifetimes are counted.
  
27.
 Tongues differ in speech, their characters as well.
  
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 Their skins are distinct, for You distinguished the peoples.
  
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 You made the Nile in the Netherworld.
 
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 You bring it up when You will, to keep those of Egypt alive,
 
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 for You have created them for yourself.
  
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 Lord of ALL who toils for them.
  
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 Lord of ALL Lands who shines for them.
  
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 O God of daytime, great in glory !
  
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 All distant lands, You make them live.
  
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 You made a heavenly Nile descend for them.
  
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 With waves beating on the mountains like the sea,
  
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 to drench their fields and their towns.
  
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 How excellent are your ways, O Lord of Eternity !
  
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 The Nile from heaven for foreign peoples
  
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 and all land-creatures that walk on legs.
  
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 For Egypt the Nile from the Netherworld.
  

 
 
 

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