2 Esdras 6:48
King James VersionSource notes
“For the dumb water and without life brought forth living things at the commandment of God, that all people might praise thy wondrous works.”
Context
45Upon the fourth day thou commandedst that the sun should shine, and the moon give her light, and the stars should be in order:
46And gavest them a charge to do service unto man, that was to be made.
47Upon the fifth day thou saidst unto the seventh part, where the waters were gathered that it should bring forth living creatures, fowls and fishes: and so it came to pass.
48For the dumb water and without life brought forth living things at the commandment of God, that all people might praise thy wondrous works.
49Then didst thou ordain two living creatures, the one thou calledst Enoch, and the other Leviathan;
50And didst separate the one from the other: for the seventh part, namely, where the water was gathered together, might not hold them both.
51Unto Enoch thou gavest one part, which was dried up the third day, that he should dwell in the same part, wherein are a thousand hills: