Baruch 3:29 – 4:4

Who hath gone up into heaven, and taken her, and brought her down from the clouds? 30Who hath passed over the sea, and found her, and brought her preferably to chosen gold? 31There is none that is able to know her ways, nor that can search out her paths: 32But he that knoweth all things, knoweth her, and hath found her out with his understanding: he that prepared the earth for evermore, and filled it with cattle and fourfooted beasts: 33He that sendeth forth the light, and it goeth: and hath called it, and it obeyeth him with trembling. 34And the stars have given light in their watches, and rejoiced: 35They were called, and they said: Here we are: and with cheerfulness they have shined forth to him that made them. 36This is our God, and there shall no other be accounted of in comparison of him. 37He found out all the way of knowledge, and gave it to Jacob his servant, and to Israel his beloved. 38Afterwards he was seen upon earth, and conversed with men. 1This is the book of the commandments of God, and the law, that is for ever: all they that keep it, shall come to life: but they that have forsaken it, to death. 2Return, O Jacob, and take hold of it, walk in the way by its brightness, in the presence of the light thereof. 3Give not thy honour to another, nor thy dignity to a strange nation. 4We are happy, O Israel: because the things that are pleasing to God, are made known to us.