Wisdom 18:3-5
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
3 Instead of this, you furnished the flaming pillar,
a guide on the unknown way,
and the mild sun for an honorable migration.(A)
4 [a]For they deserved to be deprived of light and imprisoned by darkness,
they had kept your children confined,
through whom the imperishable light of the law was to be given to the world.(B)
Fifth Example: Death of the Egyptian Firstborn; the Israelites Are Spared
5 When they determined to put to death the infants of the holy ones,
and when a single boy[b] had been cast forth and then saved,
As a reproof you carried off a multitude of their children
and made them perish all at once in the mighty water.(C)
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