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Duidain
Wikipedia's first sentence called it “wilderness named in the book of enoch as inhabited by the beast behemoth and being to the east of the garden of”. Today it says “mythical wilderness named in the apocryphal book of enoch”.
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The opening as it read in October 6, 2023
Duidain is a wilderness named in the Book of Enoch as inhabited by the beast Behemoth and being to the east of the Garden of Eden . The Book of Parables 60:8 states But the masculine is named Behemoth, who occupies, with his breast, a void desert called Dêndâin, in the east of the garden where the chosen and holy will dwell, where my grandfather was taken up, the seventh from Adam, the first of men whom the Lord of the spirits made.
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Wikipedia's first sentence called it “wilderness named in the book of enoch as inhabited by the beast behemoth and being to the east of the garden of”. Today it says “mythical wilderness named in the apocryphal book of enoch”. Read the current article and compare.
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Then
wilderness named in the book of enoch as inhabited by the beast behemoth and being to the east of the garden of
Now
mythical wilderness named in the apocryphal book of enoch
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