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"My lord the king, thesemen have actedwickedly in all that they have done to Jeremiah the prophetwhom they have cast into the cistern; and he will dierightwhere he is because* of the famine, for there is nomorebread in the city."
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Then the kingcommandedEbed-melech the Ethiopian, saying, "Takethirtymen from here under your authority and bring up Jeremiah the prophet from the cisternbefore he dies."