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He replied to me: "Because I do indeed favor you, I will also show you this. The Judgment Day is decisive. It reveals the seal of truth to all. Even in the here and now a parent doesn't send a child, or a child the parent, or a master his servant, or a faithful friend a dear confidant, so that the one should understand or sleep or eat or be taken care of in the other person's place.
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Just so, no one will ever intercede for another; everyone will then bear his or her own deeds of justice or injustice."
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I answered: "How then do we find that Abraham first interceded for the people of Sodom; and Moses for our ancestors who sinned in the desert;
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and Joshua, who came after him, for Israel, in the days of Achan;
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and Samuel in the days of Saul; and David for the plague; and Solomon for those in the sanctuary;