2 Esdras 6:52
King James VersionSource notes
“But unto Leviathan thou gavest the seventh part, namely, the moist; and hast kept him to be devoured of whom thou wilt, and when.”
Context
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:
52But unto Leviathan thou gavest the seventh part, namely, the moist; and hast kept him to be devoured of whom thou wilt, and when.
53Upon the sixth day thou gavest commandment unto the earth, that before thee it should bring forth beasts, cattle, and creeping things:
54And after these, Adam also, whom thou madest lord of all thy creatures: of him come we all, and the people also whom thou hast chosen.
55All this have I spoken before thee, O Lord, because thou madest the world for our sakes