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Wisdom 19:6-12 Catholic Public Domain Version (CPDV)

6. For every creature according to its kind was fashioned again as from the beginning, diligently serving your teachings, so that your children would be preserved unharmed.

7. For a cloud overshadowed their camp, and where water was before, dry land appeared, and in the Red Sea, a way without hindrance, and out of the great deep, a level field sprung up,

8. through which the whole nation passed, protected by your hand, seeing your miracles and wonders.

9. For they consumed food like horses, and they leapt about like lambs, praising you, O Lord, who had freed them.

10. For they were still mindful of those things which had happened during the time of their sojourn, how, instead cattle, the earth brought forth flies, and instead of fish, the river cast up a multitude of frogs.

11. And, lastly, they saw a new kind of bird, when, being led by their desire, they demanded a feast of meat.

12. For, to console their loss, the quail came up to them from the sea, and yet troubles overcame the sinners, though they were not without the evidence of what had happened before by the power of lightning, for they suffered justly according to their own wickedness.

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