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8 The archangel, severely wounded, appeared with the sun in heaven, and weeping, said, "What shall I do, so mutilated as I am?"

And it was said to him, "Cease from thy tears, and despair not. It shall happen that, henceforth, man also, like you, shall have a hollow in the sole of his foot."

As it was said, so it came to pass. From that day there appeared a small hollow in the sole of man's foot, and thus it has remained unto this day.