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that the LORDsent a prophet to the sons of Israel, and he said to them, "Thussays the LORD, the God of Israel, 'It was I who brought you up from Egypt and brought you out from the house of slavery.
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'I delivered you from the hands of the Egyptians and from the hands of all your oppressors, and dispossessed them before* you and gave you their land,
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Then the angel of the LORDcame and satunder the oak that was in Ophrah, which belonged to Joash the Abiezrite as his sonGideon was beating out wheat in the winepress in order to save it from the Midianites.
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Then Gideonsaid to him, "O my lord, if the LORD is with us, why then has allthishappened to us? And where are all His miracleswhich our fatherstold us about, saying, 'Did not the LORDbring us up from Egypt?' But now the LORD has abandoned us and given us into the hand of Midian."
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"Please do not depart from here, until I come back to You, and bring out my offering and lay it before You." And He said, "I will remainuntil you return."