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But if you will discipline your thoughts and be willing to learn, you will be kept safe in this life and will be granted mercy after death,
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for Judgment Day comes after death. We will be brought back to life, and the righteous people will be made known, while what the godless have done will be exposed.
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But now for forty days, no one is to come near me or try to find me."
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As I had been commanded, I took the five men, and we went to the field and stayed there.
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On the next day I suddenly heard a voice saying, "Ezra, open your mouth and drink what I am giving you."
Scripture taken from the Good News Translation - Second Edition, Copyright 1992 by American Bible Society. Used by Permission.