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In the tenth year, in the tenth month, on the twelfth day of the month, the word of the Lord came to me:
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Mortal, set your face against Pharaoh king of Egypt, and prophesy against him and against all Egypt;
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speak, and say, Thus says the Lord God: I am against you, Pharaoh king of Egypt, the great dragon sprawling in the midst of its channels, saying, "My Nile is my own; I made it for myself."
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I will put hooks in your jaws, and make the fish of your channels stick to your scales. I will draw you up from your channels, with all the fish of your channels sticking to your scales.
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I will fling you into the wilderness, you and all the fish of your channels; you shall fall in the open field, and not be gathered and buried. To the animals of the earth and to the birds of the air I have given you as food.
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Then all the inhabitants of Egypt shall know that I am the Lord because you were a staff of reed to the house of Israel;