1 I myself am also mortal, like everyone else, and am a descendant of one formed first and born of the earth. (WEB) 2 I molded into flesh in the time of ten months in my mother’s womb, being compacted in blood from the seed of man and pleasure of marriage. (WEB) 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) 6 but all men have one entrance into life, and a common departure. (WEB)
Wisdom of Solomon 7:1–6
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