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And we believe that it all still continues to function unchanged. 

 (390) And now indeed again there is thanks that it all still continues 

 as you intended. (391) And we simply say it here again. (392) We 

 ask that it will continue in the same manner for the period of another 

 year. 



10. The Animals 



(393) And now we are going along giving thanks for what the 

 Creator intended. (394) The entire group is thankful. (395) This 

 is what you did on the earth. (396) You decided, "I shall estabUsh 

 various animals to run about. (397) There in the forests they will 

 be running about. (398) They will be available as food to the people 

 moving about. (399) It will begin with the small animals. (400) 

 There at the edges of the forests they will be running about." (401) 

 Now at the present time we see again the large animals. (402) For 

 what you did was to decide, "I shaU again provide the large animals, 

 (403) which can be available to them as food." (404) And indeed 

 up to the present time we see the large animals running about. (405) 

 And you decided, "They too wiU all have names." (406) For this is 

 how it is, where the people are moving about. (407) It would be 

 impossible for people to say, "This is the same one I saw there be- 

 fore." For they look ahke, the animals running about. (408) But 

 people wiU simply give the names of the type of animals that they 

 see. (409) And up to the present time it continues unchanged; they 



